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Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday.

Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday.

Hunter S. Thompson
Loneliness, Thinking, Yesterday
Hunter S. Thompson (2014). “The Proud Highway: Rejacketed”, p.51, Bloomsbury Publishing

The real power in America is held by a fast-emerging new Oligarchy of pimps and preachers who see no need for Democracy or fairness or even trees, except maybe the ones in their own yards, and they don't mind admitting it.

Hunter S. Thompson
Real, America, Tree
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.

Hunter S. Thompson
Challenges, Police, Risk
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

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

Hunter S. Thompson
Life, Suicide, Real

In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

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Las Vegas, Stupidity, Fear And Loathing
Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.73, Vintage

There is an ancient Celtic axiom that says 'Good people drink good beer.' Which is true, then as now. Just look around you in any public barroom and you will quickly see: Bad people drink bad beer. Think about it.

Hunter S. Thompson
Funny, Drinking, Beer

Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.

Hunter S. Thompson
Sex, Epic, Love Is
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967”, p.124, Ballantine Books

And in fact the only way I can deal with this eerie situation at all is to make a conscious decision that I have already lived and finished the life I planned to live - and everything from now on will be A New Life, a different thing, a gig that ends tonight and starts tomorrow morning.

Hunter S. Thompson
Morning, Eerie, Decision
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is risky territory for people with generosity of spirit. Beware.

Hunter S. Thompson
Real, Men, Generous Man
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.148, Pan Macmillan

Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run, but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant.

Hunter S. Thompson
Running, Memories, Knowing
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

I damn well intend to keep on living the way I think I should.

Hunter S. Thompson
Thinking, Way, Should

If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.

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Inspirational, Crazy, Epic
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.372, Pan Macmillan

The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.

Hunter S. Thompson
Differences, Insane, Locks
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.267, Pan Macmillan

'Crazy' is a term of art; 'Insane' is a term of law. Remember that, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble.

Hunter S. Thompson
Art, Crazy, Law

No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun — for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax — This won't hurt

Hunter S. Thompson
Suicide, Hurt, Fun
Suicide note, February 20, 2005.

Life is beautiful and living is pain.

Hunter S. Thompson
Beautiful, Pain, Life Is
Hunter S. Thompson (2014). “The Proud Highway: Rejacketed”, p.51, Bloomsbury Publishing

Writing is the flip side of sex - it's good only when it's over.

Hunter S. Thompson
Sex, Writing, Flip
FaceBook post by Hunter S. Thompson from Aug 18, 2014

I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.

Hunter S. Thompson
Law, Might, Taste
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

Freedom, Truth, Honour — you could rattle off a hundred such words and behind every one of them would gather a thousand punks, pompous little farts, waving the banner with one hand and reaching under the table with the other.

Hunter S. Thompson
Honour You, Hands, Tables
Hunter S. Thompson (1999). “The Rum Diary: A Novel”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

Walk tall, kick ass, learn to speak Arabic, love music and never forget you come from a long line of truth seekers, lovers and warriors.

Hunter S. Thompson
Warrior, Long, Design
Hunter S. Thompson's note to his grandson Will (2005), as quoted in William McKeen "Outlaw Journalist: The Life and Times of Hunter S. Thompson", 2008.

We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.

Hunter S. Thompson
Respect, Ignorance Of The Law, Order
Hunter S. Thompson (2002). “Songs of the Doomed”, p.348, Simon and Schuster

You can't hoard fun. It has no shelf life.

Hunter S. Thompson
Fun, Shelves, Shelf Life
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

In Hong Kong, Dallas, or at home —and regardless of whether or not I have been to bed — breakfast is a personal ritual that can only be properly observed alone, and in a spirit of genuine excess. The food factor should always be massive: four Bloody Marys, two grapefruits, a pot of coffee, Rangoon crepes, a half pound of either sausage, bacon, or corned beef hash with diced chilies , a Spanish omelette or eggs Benedict, a quart of milk, a chopped lemon for random seasoning, and something like a slice of Key lime pie, two margaritas, and six lines of the best cocaine for dessert.

Hunter S. Thompson
Coffee, Eggs, Two
"Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson".

Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba.

Hunter S. Thompson
Motorcycle, Made, Shots
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix.

Hunter S. Thompson
Phoenix, Heaven, Facts
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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