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Time Quotes by Hunter S. Thompson

56 Time quotes by Hunter S. Thompson

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A basketball in a rookie's hands can feel like a destiny to lead a team to a championship. Thompson warns that ignoring lessons from the past can leave us vulnerable to the same hurts in the future. He also describes a reckless drive that smashes anything in its way, showing how triumph often comes with many broken souls.

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Wake up and ponder the future

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

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For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

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There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.

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Like most of the others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser.

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I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination.

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I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn't know I could commit suicide at any time.

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“What kind of rat bastard psychotic would play that song- right now, at this moment?”

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“I’m bound to go to heaven because I’ve already served my time in hell.”

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The thing that was important to me about Hemingway at the time was that Hemingway taught me that you could be a…

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There was no time for scholarly details, and, besides, I have always believed that a man can fairly be judged by the…

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Sometimes you're fooled quickly. You want to be fooled. If you can't trust your first impression you're going to have a harder…

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The first time I managed to pick up a basketball I knew I was destined to lead the UK to another National…

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Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run, but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can…

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“It had been a bad trip … fast and wild in some moments, slow and dirty in others, but on balance it looked like…

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“The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot - and it's only a question of time before all that…

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One thing I have learned in my painful career as a gambler is that bragging when you get lucky and win a…

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He knew who I was, at that time, because I had a reputation as a writer. I knew he was part of…

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Why are we seeing George Bush on TV every two hours for nine or ten days at a time, like some kind…

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The scene I had just witnessed (a couple making love in the ocean) brought back a lot of memories – not of…

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“The daily press is the evil principle of the modern world, and time will only serve to disclose this fact with greater…

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The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time, in the United States…

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“Every time I think of Tim Leary I get angry. He was a liar and a quack and a worse human being…

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We are living in dangerously weird times now. Smart people just shrug and admit they're dazed and confused. The only ones left…

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“Sounds of a San Juan night, drifting across the city through layers of humid air; sounds of life and movement, people getting…

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“Autumn is always a time of Fear and Greed and Hoarding for the winter coming on. Debt collectors are active on old…

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“There are times, however, and this is one of them, when even being right feels wrong. What do you say, for instance,…

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“I'm sure I must have sounded like a fool and a borderline psychotic most of that year, when I talked to people…

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“Like most others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser. I was never idle long…

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October is the cruelest month of any election year, but by then, the pain is so great that even the strong are…

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“Indeed ... but no sand this time, so the lever goes up into fourth, and now there's no sound except wind. Screw…

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“It seems like a lifetime, or at least a Main Era — the kind of peak that never comes again. San Francisco…

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we left about midnight and walked down the hill in silence. the night was muggy, and all around me i felt the…

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By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I…

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By the time I got to high school I knew what I was gonna do. Mainly because I looked around and saw…

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There are times, however, and this is one of them, when even being right feels wrong. What do you say, for instance,…

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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…

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The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot - and it's only a question of time before all that…

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Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in…

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“I had come to regard him as a loner with no real past and a future so vague that there was no…

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“Cases of champagne and scotch lay broken in the street, and everyone I saw had a bottle. They were screaming and dancing, and in…

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No music + Bad TV = Bad mood & no pages.

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By disgracing and degrading the presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart…

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No one holds command over me. No man. No god. No Prince. What is a claim of age for ones who are immortal? What…

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“The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb grey hairs”

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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 pain.

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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…

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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.

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Paranoia is just another mask for ignorance. The truth, when you finally chase it down is almost always far worse than your darkest visions…

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“No doubt they all Got What Was Coming To Them. All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought they could buy Peace and Understanding…

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“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…

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He wandered into the Newsroom and asked for a job the same way he’d walk into a barbershop and ask for a haircut, and…

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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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There’s a lot of things wrong with this country, but one of the few things still right with it is that a man can…

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