There is no story unless you’ve written it.
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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In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone.
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Never fire a warning shot. It is a waste of ammunition.
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Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.
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There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.
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The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.
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I never knew where I was going, but I ripped the tits off of everything that got in my way. By the time they figured me out, it was too late.
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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 miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.
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The pleasure is in the path, the search for something good.
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Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.
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The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.
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Freedom, Truth, Honour, you could rattle off a hundred such words and behind every one of them would gather a thousand punks, pompous little farts, waving the banner with one hand and reaching under the table with the other.
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I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
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Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.
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All we have to do is get out and vote, while it’s still legal, and we will wash those crooked warmongers out of the White House.
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In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
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As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.
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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 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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Ah, lives there a man with soul so dead, who never to himself hath said As he hunched and rolled in his comfortable bed: To hell with the rent . . . I’ll drink instead!
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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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As your attorney, it is my duty to inform you that it is not important that you understand what I’m doing or why you’re paying me so much money. What’s important is that you continue to do so.
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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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Some may never live, but the crazy never die.
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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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I will fight for your right to be weird- just as I know you will fight for mine.
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