Hunter S. Thompson
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“A man who
procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by
circumstance.”
“Buy the ticket, take the ride.”
“Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.”
“There’s a terrible danger in voting for the lesser of two evils because the
parties can set it up that way.”
“Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.”
“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.”
“Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it
seriously.”
“Too weird to live, too rare to die!”
“Life is beautiful and living is pain.”
“Beware of looking for goals look for a way of life.”
“Walk tall, kick ass, learn to speak Arabic, love music and never forget you
come from a long line of truth seekers, lovers and warriors.”
“THE EDGE, there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who
really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.”
“Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky and drive fast on empty streets
with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested.”
“Anything worth doing is worth doing well.”
“The possibility of physical and mental collapse is now very real. No sympathy
for the Devil, keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride.”
“Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a
thing that might have to be killed.”
“I will fight for your right to be weird- just as I know you will fight for
mine.”
“You can’t miss what you never had.”
“Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness
thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain.”
“Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run, but no explanation, no
mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were
there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant.”
“So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself who is the happier
man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed
securely on shore and merely existed”
“There is no story unless you’ve written it.”
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“Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.”
“The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the
power to lock up the insane.”
“I don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and
minds of others for your happiness.”
“You won’t find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.”
“We must ride this strange torpedo out until the end.”
“It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you
know it.”
“Journalism, to me, is just another drug – a free ride to scenes I’d probably
miss if I stayed straight.”
“We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and – in spite of True Romance magazines
– we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our
company, we were alone the whole way.”
“Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only
thing that behaves like it hasn’t got one.”
“Call on God, but row away from the rocks.”
“In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting
caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.”
“Just sick enough to be totally confident.”
“Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.”
“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.”
“On some nights, I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can
run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.”
“It never got weird enough for me.”
“There is an ancient Celtic axiom that says 'Good people drink good beer.'
Which is true, then as now. Just look around you in any public barroom and you
will quickly see Bad people drink bad beer. Think about it.”
“Kill the body and the head will die.”
“Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has
been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.”
“Turn the goddam music up! My heart feels like an alligator!”
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“The brutal reality of politics would be probably intolerable without drugs.”
“All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name. Remembered line from a
long- forgotten poem.”
“We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach
respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.”
“A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long.”
“Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.”
“Poor bastard. Wait ’till he sees the bats.”
“As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.”
“No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs. Reality itself is too
twisted.”
“I was not proud of what I had learned but I never doubted that it was worth
knowing.”
“Remember this, folks – I am a Hillbilly, and I don’t always Bet the same way I
talk. Good advice is one thing, but smart gambling is quite another.”
“There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any
moment.”
“As I see it then, the formula runs something like this a man must choose a
path which will let his ABILITIES function at maximum efficiency toward the
gratification of his DESIRES.”
“Politics is the art of controlling your environment.”
“Weird behavior is natural in smart children, like curiosity is to a kitten.”
“If you get people asking the wrong questions, you don’t have to worry about
the answers.”
“On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.”
“Old God sure was in a good mood when he made this place.”
“In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.”
“Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people
can keep their balance on it.”
“I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.”
“All energy flows according to the whims of the great Magnet. What a fool I was
to defy him.”
“Richard Nixon was an evil man – evil in a way that only those who believe in
the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without
ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency.”
“All the blood is drained out of democracy – it dies – when only half the
population votes.”
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“There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of
not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.”
“We are all wired into a survival trip, now.”
“No one HAS to do something he doesn’t want to do for the rest of his life. But
then again, if that’s what you wind up doing, by all means convince yourself
that you HAD to do it. You’ll have lots of company.”
“With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild
bursts of madness and filigree.”
“The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect
sense of it.”
“As you were, I was. As I am, you will be.”
“Some may never live, but the crazy never die.”
“I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s
imagination.”
“It gave me a strange feeling, and the rest of that night I didn’t say much,
but merely sat there and drank, trying to decide if I was getting older and
wiser, or just plain old.”
“Ah, that we lack the courage of our romantic convictions; and thereby miss the
wine of life, forgoing the very thing that makes living worthwhile.”
“Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too
often compromised by the people who represented it.”
“The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.”
“Nixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American
character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear and
despise.”
“Have an objective to give your bender a theme. For instance, stalking and
killing a wild pig with a bowie knife.”
“For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be
trampled.”
“What passed for society was a loud, giddy whirl of thieves and pretentious
hustlers, a dull sideshow full of quacks and clowns and philistines with gimp
mentalities.”
“I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be.
Indeed. The real world is risky territory for people with generosity of spirit.
Beware.”
“You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug,
especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.”
“Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of
professional journalism.”
“I feel trapped if I know I can’t kill myself at anytime.”
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“Jesus! Did I SAY that Or just think it Was I talking Did they hear me I
glanced over at my attorney, but he seemed oblivious...”
“I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my
instincts were right.”
“But after a while you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead
grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth. Most acid fanciers
can handle this sort of thing.”
“Few people understand the psychology of dealing with a highway traffic cop.”
“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.”
“Duke is an ugly word in Kentucky. Nothing in the world compares to the joy of
beating those hateful swine from Duke.”
“It was one of those fine little love stories that can make you smile in your
sleep at night.”
“There might be some serious fun in politics.”
“I was never trying, necessarily, to be an outlaw. It was just the place in
which I found myself.”
“I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.”
“There is something fresh and crisp about the first hours of a Caribbean day, a
happy anticipation that something is about to happen, maybe just up the street
or around the next corner.”
“Old elephants limp off to the hills to die; old Americans go out to the
highway and drive themselves to death with huge cars.”
“The behavior of the crowd at Churchill Downs is like 100,000 vicious Hyenas
going berserk all at once in a space about the size of a 777 jet or the White
House lawn.”
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