Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONThe mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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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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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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Writing is the flip side of sex – it’s good only when it’s over.
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So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?
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It gave me a strange feeling, and the rest of that night I didn’t say much, but merely sat there and drank, trying to decide if I was getting older and wiser, or just plain old.
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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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You won’t find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.
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I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it.
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Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.
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If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix.
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It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.
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I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
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There’s a terrible danger in voting for the lesser of two evils because the parties can set it up that way.
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In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
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