Gonzo Quotes

• Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Life, Death, Suicide

  FaceBook post by Hunter S. Thompson from Nov 01, 2015

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• Just sick enough to be totally confident

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Sick, Fear And Loathing, Enough

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.201, Vintage

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• A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Procrastination, Men, Choices Made

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967”, p.119, Ballantine Books

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

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Morning, Business, Hair

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• Like most of the others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Stupid, Fear And Loathing, Hunters

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Rum Diary: Film Tie-in Edition”, p.5, A&C Black

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• I see light at the end of the tunnel.

  Walt Whitman Rostow

  Positive, Humor, Vegas

  Walt Whitman Rostow (1955). “Russia and China Under Communism”

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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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• The association of motorcycles with LSD is no accident of publicity. They are both a means to an end, to the place of definitions.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Mean, Motorcycle, Definitions

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream”, p.90, Pan Macmillan

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

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Writing, Artist, Reality

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• I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my instincts were right.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Thinking, Long, Fear And Loathing

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Rum Diary: A Novel”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  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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• To the pessimist the light at the end of the tunnel is another train.

  Joan Rivers

  Humor, Las Vegas, Tunnels

  Joan Rivers (1997). “Bouncing back: I've survived everything-- and I mean everything-- and you can too!”, Thorndike Pr

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• Freedom, Truth, Honour — you could rattle off a hundred such words and behind every one of them would gather a thousand punks, pompous little farts, waving the banner with one hand and reaching under the table with the other.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Honour You, Hands, Tables

  Hunter S. Thompson (1999). “The Rum Diary: A Novel”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

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• If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Inspirational, Crazy, Epic

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.372, 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.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Real, Taken, Hands

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

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• Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Dream, Heart, Journey

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Hunters, Slave, Nations

  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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• There are times, however, and this is one of them, when even being right feels wrong. What do you say, for instance, about a generation that has been taught that rain is poison and sex is death?

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Sex, Rain, Hunters

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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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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• How long can we maintain? I wonder. How long before one of us starts raving and jabbering at this boy? What will he think then? This same lonely desert was the last known home of the Manson family. Will he make that grim connection.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Lonely, Home, Boys

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.9, Vintage

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• Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow confines of most men's reality. Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of 'the rat race' is not yet final.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Love, Hero, Reality

  1969 'Those Daring Young Men In Their Flying Machines Ain't What They Used To Be!', in Pageant, Sep.

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