Hunter S. Thompson Quotes - Page 5

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• You can't hoard fun. It has no shelf life.

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  Fun, Shelves, Shelf Life

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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• It will be a Religious War, a sort of Christian Jihad, fueled by religious hatred and led by merciless fanatics on both sides. It will be guerilla warfare on a global scale, with no front lines and no identifiable enemy.

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  Christian, Religious, War

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.106, Pan Macmillan

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• 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.

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  Writing, Way, Freak

  FaceBook post by Hunter S. Thompson from Jul 22, 2014

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• There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.

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  Moments, Paranoia, Worst

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.88, Pan Macmillan

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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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• Did you see Bush on TV, trying to debate? Jesus, he talked like a donkey with no brains at all...It was pitiful...I almost felt sorry for him, until I heard someone call him 'Mr. President,' and then I felt ashamed.

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  Jesus, Sorry, Brain

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• 1) Never trust a cop in a raincoat. 2) Beware of enthusiasm and of love, both are temporary and quick to sway. 3) If asked if you care about the world's problems, look deep into the eyes of he who asks, he will never ask you again. 4) Never give your real name. 5) If ever asked to look at yourself, don't look. 6) Never do anything the person standing in front of you can't understand. 7) Never create anything, it will be misinterpreted, it will chain you and follow you for the rest of your life.

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  Real, Eye, Names

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• It was one of those fine little love stories that can make you smile in your sleep at night.

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  Sleep, Night, Make You Smile

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.336, Simon and Schuster

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• As you were, I was. As I am, you will be.

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  Funny

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga: A Strange and Terrible Saga”, p.260, Ballantine Books

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• One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won't have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.

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  Sports, Winning, Vices

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.287, Pan Macmillan

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• It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.

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  Men, Obvious, Rhythm

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga: A Strange and Terrible Saga”, p.224, Ballantine Books

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• Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.

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  Life, Morality, Permanent

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• The most important thing a writer can have [is] the ability to live with the constant loneliness and a strong sense of revulsion for the banalities of everyday socializing.

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  Strong, Loneliness, Writing

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967”, p.128, 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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• At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards.

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  Snow, Mountain, Leopards

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.134, Simon and Schuster

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• I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it.

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  Country, Generations, Shapes

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward S”, p.225, Simon and Schuster

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• An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it.

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  Law, Outlaw, Defined

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

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  Beauty, Soul, Triumph

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