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  • I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes.

    Epic   Hunters   Way  
    Speech given to the University of Colorado Student Union, November 1, 1977.
  • Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer... in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my friend.

    Enemy   My Friends   Bits  
    Hunter S. Thompson, Beef Torrey, Kevin Simonson (2008). “Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson”, p.148, Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

    Dream   Heart   Journey  
    Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.105, Simon and Schuster
  • I'm a relatively respectable citizen. Multiple felon perhaps, but certainly not dangerous.

    "Fictional character: Raoul Duke". "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", www.imdb.com. 1998.
  • Writing is the flip side of sex - it's good only when it's over.

    Sex   Writing   Flip  
    FaceBook post by Hunter S. Thompson from Aug 18, 2014
  • Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

    Morning   Liberty   Pants  
    Hunter S. Thompson, Jann Wenner (2012). “Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson”, p.428, Simon and Schuster
  • Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body.

    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

    Weed   Hate   Drinking  
    FaceBook post by Hunter S. Thompson from Jul 15, 2014
  • Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times.

    Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream”, p.291, Pan Macmillan
  • If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

    Past   Cells   Years  
    1973 'Fear and Loathing at the Superbowl', in Rolling Stone, 15 Feb.
  • 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!

    Life   Death   Suicide  
    FaceBook post by Hunter S. Thompson from Nov 01, 2015
  • Most people who deal in words don't have much faith in them and I am no exception.

    People   Hunters   Gonzo  
    Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Rum Diary: Film Tie-in Edition”, p.57, A&C Black
  • Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

    Truth   Cells   Hunters  
    1973 'Fear and Loathing at the Superbowl', in Rolling Stone, 15 Feb.
  • Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.

    Life   Fun   Epic  
  • 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.

    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
  • 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.

    Warrior   Long   Design  
    Hunter S. Thompson's note to his grandson Will (2005), as quoted in William McKeen "Outlaw Journalist: The Life and Times of Hunter S. Thompson", 2008.
  • The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.

  • Anyone that is able to put a high school film and gonzo journalism together, it's like, "Yes, please!"

    School   Together   Able  
    "Ezra Miller and Zoë Kravitz Exclusive Interview BEWARE THE GONZO". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 26, 2011.
  • As things stand now, I am going to be a writer. I'm not sure that I'm going to be a good one or even a self-supporting one, but until the dark thumb of fate presses me to the dust and says 'you are nothing', I will be a writer.

    Writing   Fate   Dark  
    Hunter S. Thompson, Beef Torrey, Kevin Simonson (2008). “Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson”, p.10, Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat sh** and die.

    Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.11, Simon and Schuster
  • Happy," I muttered, trying to pin the word down. But it is one of those words, like Love, that I have never quite understood. Most people who deal in words don’t have much faith in them and I am no exception – especially the big ones like Happy and Love and Honest and Strong. They are too elusive and far to relative when you compare them to sharp, mean little words like Punk and Cheap and Phony. I feel at home with these, because they’re scrawny and easy to pin, but the big ones are tough and it takes either a priest or a fool to use them with any confidence.

    Strong   Mean   Home  
    Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Rum Diary: Film Tie-in Edition”, p.57, A&C Black
  • Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.

    Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.234, Pan Macmillan
  • We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.

    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas pt. 1 (1971)
  • Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives... and to the "good life", whatever it is and wherever it happens to be.

    Good Life   Rain   Coffee  
    Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967”, p.101, Ballantine Books
  • Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.

  • Gonzo journalism is a style of reporting based on William Faulkner's idea that the best fiction is far more true than any kind of journalism.

    Ideas   Style   Fiction  
    The Great Shark Hunt "Jacket Copy for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" (1979)
  • Take it from me, there's nothing like a job well done, except the quiet enveloping darkness at the bottom of a bottle of Jim Beam after a job done any way at all.

    Life   Jobs   Epic  
    TV Series "The Colbert Report" (Season 3, 2007), 2005–2015.
  • I wasn't trying to be an outlaw writer. I never heard of that term; somebody else made it up. But we were all outside the law: Kerouac, Miller, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Kesey; I didn't have a gauge as to who was the worst outlaw. I just recognized allies: my people.

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

    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
  • 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.

    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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