I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONYou won’t find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
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Some may never live, but the crazy never die.
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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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It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.
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I was never trying, necessarily, to be an outlaw. It was just the place in which I found myself.
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Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don’t tell them anything.
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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 downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.
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Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future.
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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 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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Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday.
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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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Don’t judge your taco by its price.
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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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Never fire a warning shot. It is a waste of ammunition.
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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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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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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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It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.
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There is no story unless you’ve written it.
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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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Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested.
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