In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
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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Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.
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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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Wake up and ponder the future.
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Writing is the flip side of sex – it’s good only when it’s over.
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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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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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I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.
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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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A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.
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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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There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.
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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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For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.
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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 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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