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.
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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Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday.
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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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In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
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Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
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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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Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.
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For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
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I will fight for your right to be weird- just as I know you will fight for mine.
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There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.
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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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Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.
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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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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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Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form.
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The pleasure is in the path, the search for something good.
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There is no story unless you’ve written it.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living WITHIN that way of life.
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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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You won’t find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.
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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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