The waitress had the appearance of a very old hooker who had finally found her place in life — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name. Remembered line from a long- forgotten poem — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Never create anything, it will be misinterpreted, it will chain you and follow you for the rest of your life. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I measure my life in pages. If I have pages at dawn, it's been a good night. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
No one HAS to do something he doesn’t want to do for the rest of his life. But then again, if that’s… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
With a bit of luck, his life was ruined forever. Always thinking that just behind some narrow door in all of his… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
She was wearing the same clothes, but now she looked haggard and dirty. The delicate illusions that get us through life can… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
sounds of life and movement, people getting ready and people giving up, the sound of hope and the sound of hanging on,… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Ah, that we lack the courage of our romantic convictions; and thereby miss the wine of life, forgoing the very thing that… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“Sounds of a San Juan night, drifting across the city through layers of humid air; sounds of life and movement, people getting… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
[Polo Is My Life] is what's called a sex book - you know, sex, drugs and rock and roll. It's about the… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
As a senior, you may be wondering what you want to do with your life after high school. College? Travel? Get a… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I have always loved marijuana. It has been a source of joy and comfort to me for many years. And I still… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The years after 2000 will be a monumental change in the way life is lived here. It will be harder and harder… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I find that by putting things in writing I can understand them and see them a little more objectively ... For words… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“Every time I think of Tim Leary I get angry. He was a liar and a quack and a worse human being… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“It is from the bystanders (who are in the vast majority) that we receive the propaganda that life is not worth living,… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“KNOW YOUR DOPE FIEND. YOUR LIFE MAY DEPEND ON IT! You will not be able to see his eyes because of the… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“Security ... what does this word mean in relation to life as we know it today? For the most part, it means… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Richard Nixon has never been one of my favorite people anyway. For years I've regarded his existence as a monument to all… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“Well … yes, and here we go again. But before we get to The Work, as it were, I want to make… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“So it was always at night, like a werewolf, that I would take the thing out for an honest run down the… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“It just more or less burns em, that’s all. They hate anything that’s not right for their way of living.” — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn't know I could commit suicide at any time. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“There was also the fact that sending a penniless writer to get $135 worth of beer was — as Khrushchev said of Nixon —… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“Cases of champagne and scotch lay broken in the street, and everyone I saw had a bottle. They were screaming and dancing, and in… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
By disgracing and degrading the presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
No one holds command over me. No man. No god. No Prince. What is a claim of age for ones who are immortal? What… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb grey hairs” — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
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… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
At age 22 I set what I insist is an all-time record for distance hitchhiking in Bermuda shorts: 3,700 miles in three weeks. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Paranoia is just another mask for ignorance. The truth, when you finally chase it down is almost always far worse than your darkest visions… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“No doubt they all Got What Was Coming To Them. All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought they could buy Peace and Understanding… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“For several months they'd been drifting toward political involvement, but the picture was hazy and one of the most confusing elements was their geographical… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image