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Life Quotes by Hunter S. Thompson
- I have always loved marijuana. It has been a source of joy and comfort to me for many years. And I still think of it…
- Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.
- It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.
- Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have to know the…
- I find that by putting things in writing I can understand them and see them a little more objectively ... For words are merely tools…
- The main problem in any democracy is that crowd-pleasers are generally brainless swine who can go out on a stage & whup their supporters into…
- Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.
- Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to…
- I measure my life in pages. If I have pages at dawn, it's been a good night.
- 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…
- No one HAS to do something he doesn’t want to do for the rest of his life. But then again, if that’s what you wind…
- Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain.
- Never create anything, it will be misinterpreted, it will chain you and follow you for the rest of your life.
- Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.
- Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces.
- One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel…
- I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is…
- I am more than just a serious basketball fan. I am a life-long addict. I was addicted from birth, in fact, because I was born…
- I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They…
- No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you…
- It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.
- All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name. Remembered line from a long- forgotten poem
- The scene I had just witnessed (a couple making love in the ocean) brought back a lot of memories – not of things I had…
- She was wearing the same clothes, but now she looked haggard and dirty. The delicate illusions that get us through life can only stand so…
- I understand that fear is my friend, but not always. Never turn your back on Fear. It should always be in front of you, like…
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- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle