Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONI’m a word freak. I like words. I’ve always compared writing to music. That’s the way I feel about good paragraphs. When it really works, it’s like music.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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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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I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
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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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Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form.
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I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it.
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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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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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An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it.
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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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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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I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.
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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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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 downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.
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Walk tall, kick ass, learn to speak Arabic, love music and never forget you come from a long line of truth seekers, lovers and warriors.
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