I damn well intend to keep on living the way I think I should.
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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We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.
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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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There is something fresh and crisp about the first hours of a Caribbean day, a happy anticipation that something is about to happen, maybe just up the street or around the next corner.
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In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
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Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn’t got one.
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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 downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.
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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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I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.
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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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Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.
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Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
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A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.
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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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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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