For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I 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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For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
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As your attorney, it is my duty to inform you that it is not important that you understand what I’m doing or why you’re paying me so much money. What’s important is that you continue to do so.
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As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.
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There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.
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With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.
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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.
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Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future.
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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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I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
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I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.
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I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.
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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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Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday.
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The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.
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If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.
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Ah, lives there a man with soul so dead, who never to himself hath said As he hunched and rolled in his comfortable bed: To hell with the rent . . . I’ll drink instead!
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