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Hunter S Thompson Inspirational Quotes (290)

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I was not proud of what I had learned but I never doubted that it was worth knowing.
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There's no point in getting into politics at all unless you plan to lash things around.
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At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards.
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The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
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All advice can only be a product of the man who gives it.
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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!
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Journalism, to me, is just another drug - a free ride to scenes I'd probably miss if I stayed straight.
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There is no way to understand the public reaction to the sight of a Freak smashing a coconut with a hammer on the hood of a white Cadillac in a Safeway parking lot unless you actually do it, and I tell you it's tense.
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If we get chased out of Iraq with our tail between our legs, that will be the fifth consecutive Third-world country with no hint of a Navy or an Air Force to have whipped us in the past 40 years.
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It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.
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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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Old elephants limp off to the hills to die old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves to death with huge cars.
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There is no fool like a careless gambler who starts taking victory for granted.
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A cap of good acid costs $5, and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony, with God singing solo and the Holy Ghost on drums.
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There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.
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We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and - in spite of True Romance magazines - we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way.
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If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
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The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.
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To give advice to a man who asks what to do with his life implies something very close to egomania. To presume to point a man to the right and ultimate goal - to point with a trembling finger in the RIGHT direction is something only a fool would take upon himself.
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Writing is the flip side of sex - it's good only when it's over.
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Don't have sex in the lobby - it's usually awkward.
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The pleasure is in the path, the search for something good.
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With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.
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In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
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