There is no story unless you’ve written it.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONWords are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.
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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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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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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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Wake up and ponder the future.
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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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I was never trying, necessarily, to be an outlaw. It was just the place in which I found myself.
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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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I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.
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The 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.
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It was one of those fine little love stories that can make you smile in your sleep at night.
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I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.
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For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
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I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
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On some nights, I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.
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It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.
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I damn well intend to keep on living the way I think I should.
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Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form.
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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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I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.
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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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In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
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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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Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.
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On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.
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