For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONIt was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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I’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.
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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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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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Writing is the flip side of sex – it’s good only when it’s over.
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God’s mercy on you degenerate swine.
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In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
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If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix.
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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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Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.
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I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
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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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Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can’t reach.
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Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
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I damn well intend to keep on living the way I think I should.
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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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