Hunter S. Thompson Gonzo Quotes

A word to the wise is infuriating.
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We're a nation of two hundred million 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.
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Buy the ticket, take the ride.
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Trust in God, but row away from the rocks.
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For every selfish moment of triumph many souls are trampled.
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Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.
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I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes.
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I have a theory that truth is not told during the nine-to-five hours.
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I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.
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If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
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If you're going to be crazy you have to get paid for it or you're going to get locked up.
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In a society where everybody's guilty the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves the only final sin is stupidity.
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The Law of the Sea: Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that we enter the food chain, and not at the top.
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No man is so foolish but that he might sometimes give good counsel, and no man is so wise that he does not err if he never takes counsel save his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Politics is just the art of controlling your environment.
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There is no honest way to explain the Edge, because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over it.
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The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. Then there's the negative side.
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There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of a binge.
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When the going gets weird the weird turn pro.
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It still hasn't gotten weird enough for me.
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You better take care of me Lord. If you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.
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