Gonzo Quotes

• The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Morning, Business, Hair

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• If we get chased out of Iraq with our tail between our legs, that will be the fifth consecutive Third-world country with no hint of a Navy or an Air Force to have whipped us in the past 40 years.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Country, Past, Air

  "Am I Turning Into a Pervert?", November 18, 2003.

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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.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Travel, Adventure, Journey

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Inspirational, Faith, Humor

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Vegas, Two, Drug

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.531, Simon and Schuster

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• No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun — for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax — This won't hurt

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Suicide, Hurt, Fun

  Suicide note, February 20, 2005.

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• You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Funny Life, Vegas, Hands

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• America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Gun, Two, Qualms About

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.

  William Faulkner

  Fiction, Journalism, Newspapers

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• A man who has blown all his options can't afford the luxury of changing his ways. He has to capitalize on whatever he has left, and he can't afford to admit - no matter how often he's reminded of it - that every day of his life takes him farther and farther down a blind alley.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Men, Luxury, Fear And Loathing

  FaceBook post by Hunter S. Thompson from Nov 26, 2014

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• That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Fate, Differences, Generations

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.589, Simon and Schuster

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• Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Running, Men, America

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• Who said anything about slicing you up? ... I just wanted to carve a little Z on your forehead-- nothing serious.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Fear And Loathing, Littles, Serious

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.61, Vintage

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• Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Writing, Artist, Reality

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• We are all wired into a survival trip, now.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Survival, Fear And Loathing, Loathing

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.175, Vintage

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• Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Law, Perspective, Style

  Letter, The Champion, July 1990

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• Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Art, Literature, Politics

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

  Ben Jonson

  Inspirational, Art, Fool

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• It is all well and good for children and acid freaks to believe in Santa Claus - but it is still a profoundly morbid day for us working professionals. It is unsettling to know that one out of every twenty people you meet on Xmas will be dead this time next year.... Some people can accept this, and some can't. That is why God made whiskey, and also why Wild Turkey comes in $300 shaped canisters during most of the Christmas season...

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Xmas, Children, Believe

  "Fear and Loathing in Elko" by Hunter S. Thompson, www.rollingstone.com. January 23, 1992.

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• I am a road man for the lords of karma.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Karma, Men, Lord

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.337, Pan Macmillan

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

  Hunter S. Thompson

  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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• Goddammit. Yeah, I have. First, there's a huge difference between being arrested and being guilty. Second, see, the law changes and I don't. How I stand vis-à-vis the law at any given moment depends on the law. The law can change from state to state, from nation to nation, from city to city. I guess I have to go by a higher law. How's that? Yeah, I consider myself a road man for the lords of karma.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Karma, Men, Law

  Interview with John Glassie, www.salon.com. February 4, 2003.

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• The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Running, Dog, Money

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• There is a huge body of evidence to support the notion that me and the police were put on this earth to do extremely different things and never to mingle professionally with each other, except at official functions, when we all wear ties and drink heavily and whoop it up like the natural, good-humored wild boys that we know in our hearts that we are..These occasions are rare, but they happen - despite the forked tongue of fate that has put us forever on different paths.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Heart, Fate, Boys

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

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• Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have to know the material you're writing about before you alter it.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Writing, Artist, Reality

  "Depp to star in ‘Rum Diary’". Associated Press Interview, www.today.com. November 12, 2003.

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