You won’t find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONThose who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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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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Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested.
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God’s mercy on you degenerate swine.
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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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It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.
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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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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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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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Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday.
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Don’t judge your taco by its price.
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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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Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
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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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Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain.
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Ah, lives there a man with soul so dead, who never to himself hath said As he hunched and rolled in his comfortable bed: To hell with the rent . . . I’ll drink instead!
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I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.
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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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With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.
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Buy the ticket, take the ride.
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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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In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
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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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These things happen. One day you run everything, and the next day you run like a dog.
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Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.
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Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.
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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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