“I am basically antisocial: certainly not to an alarming degree, but just more so than I appear to be.” — Hunter S. Thompson, “Letter to Kraig Juenger,” The Fear and Loathing Letters (1957-10-17)
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“I am quite sincere about some of the things which people take very lightly, and almost insultingly unconcerned about some of the things which people take most seriously.” — Hunter S. Thompson, “Letter to Kraig Juenger,” The Fear and Loathing Letters (1957-10-17)
Editor’s note: The quote sounds like an applicable-to-everyone astrology reading but I like it because I had never heard it before and I have had the feeling.
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“Platitudes are safe, because they’re easy to wink at, but truth is something else again.” — Hunter S. Thompson, “Letter to William J. Kennedy,” The Fear and Loathing Letters (1959-10-29)
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“There is no fool like a careless gambler who starts taking victory for granted.” — Hunter S. Thompson, Submitting to sports (2003-10-28)
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“As long as I’m learning something I figure I’m OK — it’s a decent day.” — Hunter S. Thompson, Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson
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“The highways are crowded with people who drive as if their sole purpose in getting behind the wheel is to avenge every wrong done them by man, beast or fate.” — Hunter S. Thompson, Hell’s Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
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“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.” — Hunter S. Thompson, Hell’s Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
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“Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.” — Hunter S. Thompson
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“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming ‘Wow! What a Ride!’” — Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
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“We are going to have our noses rubbed, day after day — on the tube and in the headlines — in this mess we have made for ourselves.” — Hunter S. Thompson, “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’76: Third-Rate Romance, Low-Rent Rendezvous,” Rolling Stone, (3 June 1976)
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