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Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

"If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up""It never got weird enough for me""The television business is a cruel and shallow money trench a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs for no good reason""San Francisco in the 1960s was a very special time and place to be a part of 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""Freedom is something that dies unless it's used""I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours""We are all alone born alone die alone and in spite of True Romance magazines we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that in spite of our company we were alone the whole way I do not say lonely at least not all the time but essentially and finally alone This is what makes your self-respect so important and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness""Too weird to live too rare to die""When the going gets weird the weird turn pro""I hate to advocate drugs alcohol violence or insanity to anyone but they’ve always worked for me""The edge there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over""In a closed society where everybody's guilty the only crime is getting caught In a world of thieves the only final sin is stupidity""Some may never live but the crazy never die""Buy the ticket take the ride""Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously"