With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONI 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.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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There’s a terrible danger in voting for the lesser of two evils because the parties can set it up that way.
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You won’t find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.
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All the blood is drained out of democracy – it dies – when only half the population votes.
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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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We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.
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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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There is no story unless you’ve written it.
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It was one of those fine little love stories that can make you smile in your sleep at night.
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I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
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I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
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A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.
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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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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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Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
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Some may never live, but the crazy never die.
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