I was never trying, necessarily, to be an outlaw. It was just the place in which I found myself.
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 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 damn well intend to keep on living the way I think I should.
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I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.
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For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.
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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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I knew a Buddhist once, and I’ve hated myself ever since.
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Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.
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Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
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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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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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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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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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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 felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.
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Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.
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