I don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.
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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It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.
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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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Don’t judge your taco by its price.
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The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.
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Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
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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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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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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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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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I was never trying, necessarily, to be an outlaw. It was just the place in which I found myself.
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I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.
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For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.
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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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I knew a Buddhist once, and I’ve hated myself ever since.
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On some nights, I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.
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