It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONMy greatest talent is in my ability to choose good friends. It’s about as important as things get.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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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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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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Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.
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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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Buy the ticket, take the ride.
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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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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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He had that rare weird electricity about him – that extremely wild and heavy presence that you only see in a person who has abandoned all hope of ever behaving normally.
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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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Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.
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God’s mercy on you degenerate swine.
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Wake up and ponder the future.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
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I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.
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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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