Writing is the flip side of sex – it’s good only when it’s over.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONThere’s a terrible danger in voting for the lesser of two evils because the parties can set it up that way.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.
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On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.
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The pleasure is in the path, the search for something good.
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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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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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There is something fresh and crisp about the first hours of a Caribbean day, a happy anticipation that something is about to happen, maybe just up the street or around the next corner.
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Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.
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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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I will fight for your right to be weird- just as I know you will fight for mine.
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Ah, lives there a man with soul so dead, who never to himself hath said As he hunched and rolled in his comfortable bed: To hell with the rent . . . I’ll drink instead!
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The most important thing a writer can have [is] the ability to live with the constant loneliness and a strong sense of revulsion for the banalities of everyday socializing.
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It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.
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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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As your attorney, it is my duty to inform you that it is not important that you understand what I’m doing or why you’re paying me so much money. What’s important is that you continue to do so.
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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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