I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.
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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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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Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.
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Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.
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Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.
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Some may never live, but the crazy never die.
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For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
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As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.
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Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can’t reach.
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Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.
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A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.
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I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
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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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Never fire a warning shot. It is a waste of ammunition.
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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 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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