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Hunter S. Thompson Quotes: Journalism, to me, is just another drug - a free ride to scenes I'd probably miss if I stayed straight.
         

Journalism, to me, is just another drug - a free ride to scenes I'd probably miss if I stayed straight.


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



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Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn't got one.



Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested.

Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested.



America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.



So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?

So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?



Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.

Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.



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

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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