With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONYesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.
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I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.
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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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In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
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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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I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.
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I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
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Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.
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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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For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
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On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.
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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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I was never trying, necessarily, to be an outlaw. It was just the place in which I found myself.
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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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