I was never trying, necessarily, to be an outlaw. It was just the place in which I found myself.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONSleep 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.
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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For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.
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I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.
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I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.
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All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way.
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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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Never fire a warning shot. It is a waste of ammunition.
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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 damn well intend to keep on living the way I think I should.
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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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I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.
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I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.
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These things happen. One day you run everything, and the next day you run like a dog.
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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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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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