Ah, lives there a man with soul so dead, who never to himself hath said As he hunched and rolled in his comfortable bed: To hell with the rent . . . I’ll drink instead!
HUNTER S. THOMPSONFiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can’t reach.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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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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I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.
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I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.
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I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
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Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.
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Writing is the flip side of sex – it’s good only when it’s over.
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Wake up and ponder the future.
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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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My greatest talent is in my ability to choose good friends. It’s about as important as things get.
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The most important thing a writer can have [is] the ability to live with the constant loneliness and a strong sense of revulsion for the banalities of everyday socializing.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
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In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
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For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.
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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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I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
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