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.
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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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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These things happen. One day you run everything, and the next day you run like a dog.
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There’s a terrible danger in voting for the lesser of two evils because the parties can set it up that way.
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I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.
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All the blood is drained out of democracy – it dies – when only half the population votes.
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Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.
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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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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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I was never trying, necessarily, to be an outlaw. It was just the place in which I found myself.
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Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.
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Freedom, Truth, Honour, you could rattle off a hundred such words and behind every one of them would gather a thousand punks, pompous little farts, waving the banner with one hand and reaching under the table with the other.
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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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Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.
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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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There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.
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