It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONBeware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living WITHIN that way of life.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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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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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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I damn well intend to keep on living the way I think I should.
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He had that rare weird electricity about him – that extremely wild and heavy presence that you only see in a person who has abandoned all hope of ever behaving normally.
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Writing is the flip side of sex – it’s good only when it’s over.
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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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It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.
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For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
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Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form.
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I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.
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Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn’t got one.
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With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.
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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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Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living WITHIN that way of life.
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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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