I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONI will fight for your right to be weird- just as I know you will fight for mine.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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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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Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.
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Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.
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I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
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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?
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Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday.
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Buy the ticket, take the ride.
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If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.
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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 need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
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There is no story unless you’ve written it.
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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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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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For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
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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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