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Hunter S Thompson Inspirational Quotes (290)

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Sounds of life and movement, people getting ready and people giving up, the sound of hope and the sound of hanging on, and behind them all, the quiet, deadly ticking of a thousand hungry clocks.
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There is nothing worse than a man in the throws of an ether bender.
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Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives... and to the good life, whatever it is and wherever it happens to be.
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On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.
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I wasn't trying to be an outlaw writer. I never heard of that term somebody else made it up. But we were all outside the law: Kerouac, Miller, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Kesey I didn't have a gauge as to who was the worst outlaw. I just recognized allies: my people.
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Hit him again, Jack! He's crazy!
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My blood is too thick for California: I have never been able to properly explain myself in this climate.
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I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.
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Good mescaline comes on slow. The first hour is all waiting, then about halfway through the second hour you start cursing the creep who burned you, because nothing is happening...and then ZANG!
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If you work in either journalism or politics... you will be flogged for being right and flogged for being wrong, and it hurts both ways-but it doesn't hurt as much when you're right.
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Some people will tell you that slow is good - but I'm here to tell you that fast is better.
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Sane is rich and powerful. Insane is wrong and poor and weak. The rich are free, the poor are put in cages. Res Ipsa Loquitur, amen. Mahalo.
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In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
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If Sunday is the Lord's day, then Saturday belongs to the Devil. It is the only night of the week when he gives out Free passes to the Late show at the Too Much Fun Club.
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There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge.
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I knew a Buddhist once, and I've hated myself ever since.
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Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.
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Every GOP administration since 1952 has let the Military-Industrial Complex loot the Treasury and plunge the nation into debt on the excuse of a wartime economic emergency.
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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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Given my calling I had to stumble across people who felt the same way. I was a young reporter.
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I've already become a mastodon in print - I don't see a consciousness for my kind of journalism.
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Las Vegas is a society of armed masturbators/gambling is the kicker here/sex is extra/weird trip for high rollers ... house-whores for winners, hand jobs for the bad luck crowd.
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Quacks are a part of our culture, and we all fall prey to them. Who among us can say, for sure, that even our own personal physicians are honest and competent?
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Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
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