I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONThere are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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I damn well intend to keep on living the way I think I should.
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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 long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.
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The pleasure is in the path, the search for something good.
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On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.
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I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.
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Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
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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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An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it.
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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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For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
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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 don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.
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Writing is the flip side of sex – it’s good only when it’s over.
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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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