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.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONGraffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.
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Never fire a warning shot. It is a waste of ammunition.
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All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way.
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All the blood is drained out of democracy – it dies – when only half the population votes.
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I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
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All we have to do is get out and vote, while it’s still legal, and we will wash those crooked warmongers out of the White House.
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I damn well intend to keep on living the way I think I should.
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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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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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Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
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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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Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.
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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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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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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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