I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
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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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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I damn well intend to keep on living the way I think I should.
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There is no story unless you’ve written it.
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On some nights, I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.
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Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.
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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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Writing is the flip side of sex – it’s good only when it’s over.
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For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
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Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested.
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I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.
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Buy the ticket, take the ride.
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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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Freedom, Truth, Honour, you could rattle off a hundred such words and behind every one of them would gather a thousand punks, pompous little farts, waving the banner with one hand and reaching under the table with the other.
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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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The pleasure is in the path, the search for something good.
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