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. THOMPSONLiberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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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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You won’t find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.
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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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I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.
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Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don’t tell them anything.
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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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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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It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.
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It’s in my interest, in ours perhaps, or maybe the interests of the greater good, for me to smoke a joint, and calm down.
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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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I don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.
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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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As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.
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There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.
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Some may never live, but the crazy never die.
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