I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it.
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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In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
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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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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 never knew where I was going, but I ripped the tits off of everything that got in my way. By the time they figured me out, it was too late.
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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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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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With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.
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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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A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.
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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 story unless you’ve written it.
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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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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.
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Buy the ticket, take the ride.
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Don’t judge your taco by its price.
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