He had that rare weird electricity about him – that extremely wild and heavy presence that you only see in a person who has abandoned all hope of ever behaving normally.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONI have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.
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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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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’m a word freak. I like words. I’ve always compared writing to music. That’s the way I feel about good paragraphs. When it really works, it’s like music.
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Some may never live, but the crazy never die.
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Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.
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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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For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.
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Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.
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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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It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.
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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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A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.
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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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I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.
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