I was never trying, necessarily, to be an outlaw. It was just the place in which I found myself.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONIn a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
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Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday.
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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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Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.
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On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.
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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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Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form.
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I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
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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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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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A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.
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You won’t find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.
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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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