If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONNever turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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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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These things happen. One day you run everything, and the next day you run like a dog.
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All the blood is drained out of democracy – it dies – when only half the population votes.
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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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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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I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.
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Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday.
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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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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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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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Some may never live, but the crazy never die.
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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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There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.
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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 learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.
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