Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.
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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The pleasure is in the path, the search for something good.
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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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Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
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It was one of those fine little love stories that can make you smile in your sleep at night.
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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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For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
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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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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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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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Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.
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God’s mercy on you degenerate swine.
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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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These things happen. One day you run everything, and the next day you run like a dog.
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Writing is the flip side of sex – it’s good only when it’s over.
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Wake up and ponder the future.
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Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form.
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I will fight for your right to be weird- just as I know you will fight for mine.
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Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.
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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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Freedom, Truth, Honour, you could rattle off a hundred such words and behind every one of them would gather a thousand punks, pompous little farts, waving the banner with one hand and reaching under the table with the other.
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I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain.
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There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.
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There’s a terrible danger in voting for the lesser of two evils because the parties can set it up that way.
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All the blood is drained out of democracy – it dies – when only half the population votes.
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