I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONFiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can’t reach.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don’t tell them anything.
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Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form.
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Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.
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Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.
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All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way.
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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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Never fire a warning shot. It is a waste of ammunition.
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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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It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.
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For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.
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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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There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.
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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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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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Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.
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