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?
HUNTER S. THOMPSONIt’s in my interest, in ours perhaps, or maybe the interests of the greater good, for me to smoke a joint, and calm down.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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I knew a Buddhist once, and I’ve hated myself ever since.
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If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix.
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I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
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Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
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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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He had that rare weird electricity about him – that extremely wild and heavy presence that you only see in a person who has abandoned all hope of ever behaving normally.
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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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Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future.
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All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way.
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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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It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.
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I don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.
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Some may never live, but the crazy never die.
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Wake up and ponder the future.
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Buy the ticket, take the ride.
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