Writing is the flip side of sex – it’s good only when it’s over.
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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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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Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday.
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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 hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.
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In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone.
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For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.
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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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The pleasure is in the path, the search for something good.
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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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Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.
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It’s in my interest, in ours perhaps, or maybe the interests of the greater good, for me to smoke a joint, and calm down.
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Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.
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There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.
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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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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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