There is no story unless you’ve written it.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONIf 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.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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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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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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With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.
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I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into 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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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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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 a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.
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I never knew where I was going, but I ripped the tits off of everything that got in my way. By the time they figured me out, it was too late.
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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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I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
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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 have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.
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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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I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.
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The most important thing a writer can have [is] the ability to live with the constant loneliness and a strong sense of revulsion for the banalities of everyday socializing.
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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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Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.
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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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Walk tall, kick ass, learn to speak Arabic, love music and never forget you come from a long line of truth seekers, lovers and warriors.
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I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
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God’s mercy on you degenerate swine.
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I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
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Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.
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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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It gave me a strange feeling, and the rest of that night I didn’t say much, but merely sat there and drank, trying to decide if I was getting older and wiser, or just plain old.
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