I knew a Buddhist once, and I’ve hated myself ever since.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONOn some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.
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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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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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Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.
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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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A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.
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It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.
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Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
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For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
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Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can’t reach.
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Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.
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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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In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
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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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