I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONAnything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
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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Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.
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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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All we have to do is get out and vote, while it’s still legal, and we will wash those crooked warmongers out of the White House.
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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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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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These things happen. One day you run everything, and the next day you run like a dog.
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Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.
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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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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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Buy the ticket, take the ride.
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Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.
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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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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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An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it.
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