1980s, Generation of Swine (1988)
Context: Maybe there is no Heaven. Or maybe this is all pure gibberish — a product of the demented imagination of a lazy drunken hillbilly with a heart full of hate who has found a way to live out where the real winds blow — to sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky, and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind except falling in love and not getting arrested...
Res ipsa loquitur. Let the good times roll.
“Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whiskey and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested.”
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Hunter S. Thompson 268
American journalist and author 1937–2005Related quotes
"I'm Goin' Down"
Song lyrics, Born in the U.S.A. (1984)
“Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whiskey makes it go round twice as fast.”
“We used to get arrested every other week — that is, the old man would get arrested.”
On his underage working in stage shows, in The Detroit News (4 December 1914)
“Whiskey is for drinking. Water is for fighting over.”
It seems likely that the attribution to Twain is apocryphal. It is not listed as authentic on Twainquotes http://twainquotes.com/, and is not listed at all in either R. Ken Ramussen's The Quotable Mark Twain (1998) or David W. Barber's Quotable Twain (2002)
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1 November 1833
Table Talk (1821–1834)
Are You There Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea (2008)