For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONFiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can’t reach.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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All the blood is drained out of democracy – it dies – when only half the population votes.
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You won’t find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.
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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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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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I don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.
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I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.
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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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On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.
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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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I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.
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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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Some may never live, but the crazy never die.
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Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested.
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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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