I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.
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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With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.
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A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.
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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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In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone.
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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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Walk tall, kick ass, learn to speak Arabic, love music and never forget you come from a long line of truth seekers, lovers and warriors.
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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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Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
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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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I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.
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My greatest talent is in my ability to choose good friends. It’s about as important as things get.
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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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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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I was never trying, necessarily, to be an outlaw. It was just the place in which I found myself.
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There is no story unless you’ve written it.
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