"Too weird to live, and too rare..." - Quote by Hunter S Thompson
Too weird to live, and too rare to die.
More by Hunter S Thompson
“As things stand now, I am going to be a writer. I'm not sure that I'm going to be a good one or even a self-supporting one, but until the dark thumb of fate presses me to the dust and says 'you are nothing', I will be a writer.”
“["Where the Buffalo Roam" is] horrible pile of crap. [Bill] Murray did a good job. But it was a bad script. You can't beat a bad script. It was just a horrible movie. A cartoon. But Bill Murray did a good job. We actually wrote and shot several different endings and beginnings and they all got cut out in the end. It was disappointing.”
“I’m a word freak. I like words. I’ve always compared writing to music. That’s the way I feel about good paragraphs. When it really works, it’s like music.”
More on Uniqueness
“You've either got or you haven't got style, and if you've got it you stand out a mile.”
“There are men who are wanting in the comparative, they as a rule are the most interesting.”
“People don't realize what they had till it's gone. Like President Kennedy, there was no one like him, the Beatles, and my man Elvis Presley. I was the Elvis of boxing.”
More on Individuality
“We don’t just live in a celebrity take-down culture; we live in a take-down culture. People will find anything about you and twist it to where it’s weird or wrong or annoying or strange or bad. You have to live your life not only in spite of people who don’t understand you - you have to have more fun than they do.”
“I believe in standardizing automobiles, not human beings.”
“I'm not anyone, I'm just myself; whatever I am, I am something, and now I'm something you can't help.”