I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONAvoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don’t tell them anything.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.
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He had that rare weird electricity about him – that extremely wild and heavy presence that you only see in a person who has abandoned all hope of ever behaving normally.
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In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
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I damn well intend to keep on living the way I think I should.
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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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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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I was never trying, necessarily, to be an outlaw. It was just the place in which I found myself.
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Buy the ticket, take the ride.
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For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
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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 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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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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All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way.
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On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.
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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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