Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn’t got one.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONYesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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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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Don’t judge your taco by its price.
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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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An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it.
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Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.
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Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
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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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Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form.
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Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.
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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 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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Writing is the flip side of sex – it’s good only when it’s over.
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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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On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.
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All the blood is drained out of democracy – it dies – when only half the population votes.
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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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I damn well intend to keep on living the way I think I should.
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It was one of those fine little love stories that can make you smile in your sleep at night.
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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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Some may never live, but the crazy never die.
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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’m a word freak. I like words. I’ve always compared writing to music. That’s the way I feel about good paragraphs. When it really works, it’s like music.
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There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.
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There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.
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Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can’t reach.
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A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.
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