Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn’t got one.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONI knew a Buddhist once, and I’ve hated myself ever since.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.
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Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.
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It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.
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Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
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I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.
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Writing is the flip side of sex – it’s good only when it’s over.
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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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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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With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.
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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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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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For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
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All the blood is drained out of democracy – it dies – when only half the population votes.
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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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An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it.
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