In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONI hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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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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I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
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It’s in my interest, in ours perhaps, or maybe the interests of the greater good, for me to smoke a joint, and calm down.
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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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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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Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form.
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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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I damn well intend to keep on living the way I think I should.
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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 was never trying, necessarily, to be an outlaw. It was just the place in which I found myself.
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Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond.
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A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.
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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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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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Some may never live, but the crazy never die.
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