Inspirational Quotes by Hunter S. Thompson

We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear

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You can’t play city rules when you live in a jungle.

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I'll call New York for some cash.

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In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile.

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Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can't reach.

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There is no story unless you've written it.

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We are all wired into a survival trip, now.

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We must ride this strange torpedo out until the end.

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Though I was careful never to mention it, I began to see a new dimension in everything that happened.

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Las Vegas makes Reno seem like your friendly neighborhood grocery store.

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Get out of control, but appear under control. It?s not bad to alarm other people, though ? it?s good for them.

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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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Once I establish credit, I may be able to function. A man needs credit. Especially when he has no money.

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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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Never create anything, it will be misinterpreted, it will chain you and follow you for the rest of your life.

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If you consider the great journalists in history, you don't see too many objective journalists on that list.

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I voted for Ralph Nader in 2000, but I will not make that mistake again. The joke is over for Nader. He…

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They say that "he who flies highest, falls farthest" — and who am I to argue? But we can't forget that "he…

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Stay naked as much as possible, but do not impose your orgiastic will on others. Don't have sex in the lobby -…

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Richard Nixon looks like a flaming liberal today, compared to a golem like George Bush. Indeed. Where is Richard Nixon now that…

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The first paragraph. The last paragraph. That's where the story is going and how it's going to end. Or else you'll go…

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Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is…

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I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.

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Crack is ruining the drug culture.

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Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.

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A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.

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Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.

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Don't have sex in the lobby - it's usually awkward.

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Paranoia is just another mask for ignorance.

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I've been studying drugs for years.

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Just sick enough to be totally confident

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Too weird to live, too rare to die!

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He could shake your hand and stab you in the back at the same time.

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Platitudes are safe, because they're easy to wink at, but truth is something else again.

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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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If you have half a story and you don't know the rest, you use what you have to pry the rest out…

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It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.

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If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously…

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Not even the foulest atrocities of Adolf Hitler ever shocked me so badly as these Abu Ghraib photographs did.

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I learned from # Hemingway that you could be a # writer and get away with it.

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