Hunter S. Thompson Quotes - Page 15

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• The Hell's Angels try not to do anything halfway, and anyone who deals in extremes is bound to cause trouble, whether he means to or not. This, along with a belief in total retaliation for any offense or insult, is what makes the Hell's Angels unmanageable for the police and morbidly fascinating to the general public.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Mean, Angel, Police

  Arlen (CON) Ness, Michael Dregni, Evel Knievel, Jean (FRW) Davidson, Sonny Barger, Hunter S. (CON) Thompson “The Harley-Davidson Reader”

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• The room was very quiet. I walked over to the TV set and turned it on to a dead channel-white noise at maximum decibels, a fine sound for sleeping, a powerful continuous hiss to drown out everything strange.

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  Powerful, Sleep, White

  Hunter S. Thompson “Hunter S. Thompson's Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas”, IDW Publishing

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• But our trip was different. It was a classic affirmation of everything right and true and decent in the national character. It was a gross, physical salute to the fantastic possibilities of life in this country-but only for those with true grit. And we were chock full of that.

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  Country, Character, Fear And Loathing

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.535, Simon and Schuster

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• Journalism, to me, is just another drug - a free ride to scenes I'd probably miss if I stayed straight.

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  Missing, Drug, Journalism

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.223, Simon and Schuster

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• Quacks are a part of our culture, and we all fall prey to them. Who among us can say, for sure, that even our own personal physicians are honest and competent?

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  Fall, Physicians, Culture

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.85, Pan Macmillan

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• Myths and legends die hard in America.

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  America, Fear And Loathing, Hunters

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.406, Simon and Schuster

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• Most people who deal in words don't have much faith in them and I am no exception.

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  People, Hunters, Gonzo

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Rum Diary: Film Tie-in Edition”, p.57, A&C Black

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• Jesus man! You don't look for acid! Acid finds you when it thinks you're ready.

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  Jesus, Men, Thinking

  "Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72". Book by Hunter S. Thompson, 1973.

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• As a senior, you may be wondering what you want to do with your life after high school. College? Travel? Get a job? Options are limitless, but it will be good to have a plan. Use the high school senior quotes about life below to come up with ideas on what you want to make of yourself after high school. The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

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  Senior, Morning, Jobs

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• I measure my life in pages. If I have pages at dawn, it's been a good night.

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  Good Night, Dawn, Pages

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.275, Pan Macmillan

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• Old elephants limp off to the hills to die; old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves to death with huge cars.

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  Death, Elephants, Car

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.535, Simon and Schuster

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• I think I'm going to have to get a flying license very soon, and maybe one of those Lear jets. It beats motorcycles all to hell.

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  Thinking, Flying, Motorcycle

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• A man never stoops so low as when he rises to the challenge of politics.

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  Men, Challenges, Lows

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• ["Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas"] is a very hard book to translate to film because there's so much interior monologue. The what if factor. I tried to write it cinematically and let the dialogue carry it but I forgot about the interior monologue. It's kind of hard to show what's going on in the head. I think we should do it like a documentary.

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  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.fargonebooks.com

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• Sportswriters are a rude and brainless subculture of fascist drunks, a gang of vicious monkeys jerking off in a zoo cage... more disgusting by nature than maggots oozing out the carcass of a dead animal.

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  Zoos, Animal, Rude

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• You can't miss what you never had.

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  Missing

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.308, 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.

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  Law, Perspective, Style

  Letter, The Champion, July 1990

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• We came out here to find the American Dream, and now that we're right in the vortex you want to quit ... You must realize that we've found the main nerve." I know," he said. "That's what gives me the Fear.

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  Dream, Giving, Nerves

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.48, Vintage

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• Relax - This won't hurt.

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  Hurt, Relax

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• There's also a down side.

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  Sides

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• The thing that was important to me about Hemingway at the time was that Hemingway taught me that you could be a writer and get away with it.

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  Get Away

  "Ancient Gonzo Wisdom".

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• I think George Washington owned guns. I've never seen any contradiction with that.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Thinking, Gun, Contradiction

  Source: www.fargonebooks.com

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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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  Running, Men, America

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• There is no way to understand the public reaction to the sight of a Freak smashing a coconut with a hammer on the hood of a white Cadillac in a Safeway parking lot unless you actually do it, and I tell you it's tense.

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  Food, Sight, White

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, Simon and Schuster

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• Fishing from a boat seems like dilettante bullshit - like hunting wild boar with a can of spray paint from the safety of a pick-up truck

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  Hunting, Rivers, Lakes

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