In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONI have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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I damn well intend to keep on living the way I think I should.
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An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it.
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So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?
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The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.
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Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn’t got one.
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Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested.
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All the blood is drained out of democracy – it dies – when only half the population votes.
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God’s mercy on you degenerate swine.
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Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.
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Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.
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Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.
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If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix.
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I don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.
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The pleasure is in the path, the search for something good.
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It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.
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Wake up and ponder the future.
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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond.
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In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
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Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.
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My greatest talent is in my ability to choose good friends. It’s about as important as things get.
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For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.
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There is no story unless you’ve written it.
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It’s in my interest, in ours perhaps, or maybe the interests of the greater good, for me to smoke a joint, and calm down.
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Don’t judge your taco by its price.
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I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
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