Hunter S. Thompson Quotes - Page 5

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• That is the problem with this rich and anguished generation. Somewhere a long time ago they fell in love with the idea that politicians- even the slickest and brightest presidential candidates- were real heroes and truly exciting people. That is wrong on its face. They are mainly dull people with corrupt instincts and criminal children.

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  Children, Real, Hero

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.265, Simon and Schuster

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• The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time, in the United States or any other country. Make no mistake about it: We are At War now & with somebody & and we will stay At War with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives.

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  Country, War, Mistake

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

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• A cap of good acid costs $5, and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony, with God singing solo and the Holy Ghost on drums.

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  Symphony, Singing, Dollars

  "The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time".

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• 'Crazy' is a term of art; 'Insane' is a term of law. Remember that, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble.

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  Art, Crazy, Law

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• I have always loved marijuana. It has been a source of joy and comfort to me for many years. And I still think of it as a basic staple of life, along with beer and ice and grapefruits - and millions of Americans agree with me.

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  Weed, Beer, Thinking

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• All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes.

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  Blood, Democracy, Population

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.319, Pan Macmillan

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• In Hong Kong, Dallas, or at home —and regardless of whether or not I have been to bed — breakfast is a personal ritual that can only be properly observed alone, and in a spirit of genuine excess. The food factor should always be massive: four Bloody Marys, two grapefruits, a pot of coffee, Rangoon crepes, a half pound of either sausage, bacon, or corned beef hash with diced chilies , a Spanish omelette or eggs Benedict, a quart of milk, a chopped lemon for random seasoning, and something like a slice of Key lime pie, two margaritas, and six lines of the best cocaine for dessert.

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  Coffee, Eggs, Two

  "Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson".

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• Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.

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  Sex, Epic, Love Is

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967”, p.124, Ballantine Books

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• I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your head - big darkness, soon come - but every once in a while you get a fair chance to have it both ways, and the annual NCAA basketball Tournament is one of them.

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  Basketball, Heart, Ncaa

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• I was never trying, necessarily, to be an outlaw. It was just the place in which I found myself.

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  Trying, Outlaw, Found

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.267, Pan Macmillan

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• Writing is the flip side of sex - it's good only when it's over.

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  Sex, Writing, Flip

  FaceBook post by Hunter S. Thompson from Aug 18, 2014

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• If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix.

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  Phoenix, Heaven, Facts

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile.

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  Fun, Pigs, Hunters

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.98, Pan Macmillan

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• I shared a vagrant optimism that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of us would inevitably make it over the top. At the same time, I felt that the life we were leading was a lost cause, that we were all actor, kidding ourselves on a senseless odyssey. It was the tension between those two poles - a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other - that kept me going.

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  Real, Taken, Hands

  "The Rum Diary". Book by Hunter S. Thompson, 1998.

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• I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.

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  Beach, Needs, Blackness

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967”, p.108, Ballantine Books

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• For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.

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  Vegas, Gambling, Earth

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.42, Vintage

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• Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.

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  People, Reason, Liberalism

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• Everyone crashes Some get back on Some don't Some can't.

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  Bikers, Crash, Get Back

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• Don't judge your taco by its price

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  Judging, Tacos

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• Richard Nixon has never been one of my favorite people anyway. For years I've regarded his existence as a monument to all the rancid genes and broken chromosomes that corrupt the possibilities of the American Dream; he was a foul caricature of himself, a man with no soul, no inner convictions, with the integrity of a hyena and the style of a poison toad. The Nixon I remembered was absolutely humorless; I couldn't imagine him laughing at anything except maybe a paraplegic who wanted to vote Democratic but couldn't quite reach the lever on the voting machine.

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  Dream, Integrity, Men

  "Pageant" Magazine, July 1968.

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• Rush Limbaugh is a lame professional swine, and he makes a good living at it. He is like a hired geek in some traveling backwoods carnival - the freaks who bite the heads off chickens - but Limbaugh is a modernized geek who thinks he can bite the heads off of people.

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  Thinking, People, Lame

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• We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear

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  Hunters, Slave, Gonzo

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.215, Pan Macmillan

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• Most of my friends are into strange things I don't really understand - and with a few shameful exceptions I wish them all well. Who am I, after all, to tell some friend he shouldn't change his name to Oliver High, get rid of his family, and join a Satanism cult in Seattle? Or to argue with another friend who wants to buy a single-shot Remington Fireball so he can go out and shoot cops from a safe distance?

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  Distance, Names, Wish

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• It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.

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  Fall, Mermaid, Pool

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.47, Pan Macmillan

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• Familiarity seems to breed contempt

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  Contempt, Seems, Familiarity

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga: A Strange and Terrible Saga”, p.254, Ballantine Books

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