I don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONDon’t judge your taco by its price.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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Writing is the flip side of sex – it’s good only when it’s over.
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Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can’t reach.
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I never knew where I was going, but I ripped the tits off of everything that got in my way. By the time they figured me out, it was too late.
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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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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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Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.
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Some may never live, but the crazy never die.
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I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
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Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don’t tell them anything.
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Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.
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Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.
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It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.
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On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.
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I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.
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I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.
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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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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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Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday.
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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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I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
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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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Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain.
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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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I damn well intend to keep on living the way I think I should.
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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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With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.
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