Gonzo Journalism Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  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

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• Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer... in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my friend.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Enemy, My Friends, Bits

  Hunter S. Thompson, Beef Torrey, Kevin Simonson (2008). “Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson”, p.148, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Truth, Cells, Hunters

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

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• We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Vegas, Drug, Fear And Loathing

  Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas pt. 1 (1971)

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• The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.

  William Faulkner

  Fiction, Journalism, Newspapers

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• I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Money, Writing, Epic

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967”, p.106, Ballantine Books

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• 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.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Strong, Mean, Home

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

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• 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

  Numbers, Criminals, Dollars

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream”, p.291, Pan Macmillan

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

  Hunter S. Thompson

  People, Hunters, Gonzo

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

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• Some people will say that words like scum and rotten are wrong for Objective Journalism -- which is true, but they miss the point. It was the built-in blind spots of the Objective rules and dogma that allowed Nixon to slither into the White House in the first place.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Blind Spots, White, People

  Hunter S. Thompson, Jann Wenner (2012). “Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson”, p.430, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Writing, Fate, Dark

  Hunter S. Thompson, Beef Torrey, Kevin Simonson (2008). “Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson”, p.10, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• 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.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  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

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

  Zoe Kravitz

  School, Together, Able

  "Ezra Miller and Zoë Kravitz Exclusive Interview BEWARE THE GONZO". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 26, 2011.

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