I was never trying, necessarily, to be an outlaw. It was just the place in which I found myself.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONIt is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.
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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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I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
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I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.
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Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.
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I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
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Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living WITHIN that way of life.
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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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A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.
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I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.
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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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Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.
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Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form.
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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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I knew a Buddhist once, and I’ve hated myself ever since.
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