I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.
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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Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.
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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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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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Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
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Walk tall, kick ass, learn to speak Arabic, love music and never forget you come from a long line of truth seekers, lovers and warriors.
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Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.
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Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain.
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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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A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.
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For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.
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God’s mercy on you degenerate swine.
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I knew a Buddhist once, and I’ve hated myself ever since.
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Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.
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I 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.
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Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don’t tell them anything.
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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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It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.
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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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An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it.
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I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.
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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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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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If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.
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Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday.
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