There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONThere is no story unless you’ve written it.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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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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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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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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Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.
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Writing is the flip side of sex – it’s good only when it’s over.
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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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Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.
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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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A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.
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All we have to do is get out and vote, while it’s still legal, and we will wash those crooked warmongers out of the White House.
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Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.
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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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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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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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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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