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.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONI was never trying, necessarily, to be an outlaw. It was just the place in which I found myself.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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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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Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.
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I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
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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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These things happen. One day you run everything, and the next day you run like a dog.
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Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
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Writing is the flip side of sex – it’s good only when it’s over.
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On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.
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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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As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.
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Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form.
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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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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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Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.
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We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.
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