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?
HUNTER S. THOMPSONIn 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.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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I knew a Buddhist once, and I’ve hated myself ever since.
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Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn’t got one.
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There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.
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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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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.
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God’s mercy on you degenerate swine.
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Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.
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I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
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A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.
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All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way.
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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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Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future.
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It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.
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Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.
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