Hunter S. Thompson Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• 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

• 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

• 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.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Past, Cells, Years

  1973 'Fear and Loathing at the Superbowl', in Rolling Stone, 15 Feb.

• There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Men, Addiction, Fear And Loathing

  "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream".

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

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Morning, Business, Hair

• 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

• 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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