Hunter S. Thompson Quotes:
I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.
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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.
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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.
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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.
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No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.
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Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it.
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The next MVP of the Super Bowl is just as likely to have been a full-time grocery store bagger last year as a Heisman Trophy winner.
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The person who doesn’t scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.
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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.
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There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.
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It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
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A word to the wise is infuriating.
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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.
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Politics is the art of controlling your environment.
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Buy the ticket, take the ride.
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You better take care of me Lord, if you don’t you’re gonna have me on your hands.
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For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The trouble with Nixon is that he’s a serious politics junkie. He’s totally hooked and like any other junkie, he’s a bummer to have around, especially as President.
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The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it.
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Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.
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There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.
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I’ve already become a mastodon in print – I don’t see a consciousness for my kind of journalism.
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The Raiders of old were vicious and crazy and cruel. Hanging around their locker room was like hanging around the weight room at Folsom Prison.
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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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I am a professional sportswriter, among other things, and I take the games seriously. It is only one of my many powerful addictions, and I don’t mind admitting any of them.
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With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.
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I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
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I think I’m one of the most patriotic people that I’ve ever encountered in America. I consider myself a bedrock patriot. I participate very actively in local politics, because my voice might be worthwhile. I participate in a meaningful way – not by donations; I work at it.
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Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.
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Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.
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