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.
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 knew a Buddhist once, and I’ve hated myself ever since.
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The most important thing a writer can have [is] the ability to live with the constant loneliness and a strong sense of revulsion for the banalities of everyday socializing.
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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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There is something fresh and crisp about the first hours of a Caribbean day, a happy anticipation that something is about to happen, maybe just up the street or around the next corner.
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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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I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.
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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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Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
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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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It gave me a strange feeling, and the rest of that night I didn’t say much, but merely sat there and drank, trying to decide if I was getting older and wiser, or just plain old.
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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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I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
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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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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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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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