Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONGraffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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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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Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.
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Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
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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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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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My greatest talent is in my ability to choose good friends. It’s about as important as things get.
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All the blood is drained out of democracy – it dies – when only half the population votes.
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Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond.
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In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
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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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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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I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.
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Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.
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Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain.
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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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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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As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.
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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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Some may never live, but the crazy never die.
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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 believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
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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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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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For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.
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