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Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “If you have half a story and you don’t know the rest, you use what you have to pry the rest out of someone.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “I damn well intend to keep on living the way I think I should.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only real cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “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.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “Not even the foulest atrocities of Adolf Hitler ever shocked me so badly as these Abu Ghraib photographs did.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “No cop was ever born who wasn’t a sucker for a finely-executed high-speed Controlled Drift all the way around one of those clover-leaf freeway interchanges.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “As your attorney, I advise you to tell me where you put the goddamn mescaline.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “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.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “I am an Addictive Personality, they say, a natural slave to passion – and many Doctors have warned me against it. I am a High-risk Patient.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “It’s the difference between watching a football game between two teams you don’t care about, and watching a game where you have some kind of personal identity with one of the teams, if only a huge bet.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “Hit him again, Jack! He’s crazy!”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn’t anticipate.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “Richard Nixon was a criminally insane Monster – Bill Clinton is a black-hearted Swine of a friend.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “Why did she have to happen? Just when I was doing so good without her.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “All golfers fear the one-iron. It has no angle, no loft. The one-iron is a confidence-crusher, a fear trip, an almost guarantee of shame, failure, dumbness and humiliation if you ever use it in public.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.” – J. Conrad.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “I had a soft spot in my heart for Ronald Regan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth, and also because his wife gave the best head in Hollywood.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “You can’t hoard fun. It has no shelf life.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “I beat him like a mad dog with mange every time I got a chance, and I am proud of it. He was scum.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “I had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “Nixon was a bad loser. He hated losing worse than death, and that is why I enjoyed him. We were both football fans, both addicts; and on some days, nothing else mattered.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “The scene I had just witnessed brought back a lot of memories – not of things I have done but of things I have failed to do, wasted hours and frustrated moments and opportunities forever lost because time had eaten so much of my life and I would never get it back.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “Children are like TV sets. When they start acting weird, whack them across the head with a big rubber basketball shoe.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “Sportswriters are a rude and brainless subculture of fascist drunks.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “We must have football. What would this country be without football in October?”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “The greatest mania of all is passion: and I am a natural slave to passion: the balance between my brain and my soul and my body is as wild and delicate as the skin of a Ming vase.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “I went to the Democratic Convention as a journalist, and returned a cold-blooded revolutionary.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “Any kind of political campaign that taps the kind of energy that nothing else can reach would generate a tremendous high for everybody involved in it.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “I knew a Buddhist once, and I’ve hated myself ever since.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “Most people who deal in words don’t have much faith in them and I am no exception.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “Myths and legends die hard in America.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “Though I was careful never to mention it, I began to see a new dimension in everything that happened.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “There is nothing Modern about doing dumb things for dumb reasons.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother’s milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it, or there won’t be any winners.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “It was almost May. I knew that New York was getting warm now, that London was wet, that Rome was hot – and I was on Vieques, where it was always hot and where New York and London and Rome were just names on a map.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “There is a huge body of evidence to support the notion that me and the police were put on this earth to do extremely different things and never to mingle professionally with each other, except at official functions, when we all wear ties and drink heavily and whoop it up like the natural, good-humored wild boys that we know in our hearts that we are... These occasions are rare, but they happen – despite the forked tongue of fate that has put us forever on different paths...”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “The first paragraph. The last paragraph. That’s where the story is going and how it’s going to end. Or else you’ll go off in a hundred different directions.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “The difference is as basic as between a professional football player and a rabid fan. One is a performer in a harsh, unique corner of reality; the other is a cultist, a passive worshiper, and occasionally a sloppy emulator of a style that fascinates him because it is so hopelessly remote from the reality he wakes up to every morning.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “Nearly everyone who has ridden a bike for any length of time will agree. The highways are crowded with people who drive as if their sole purpose in getting behind the wheel is to avenge every wrong ever done them by man, beast or fate.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “All gamblers lose regularly, but they rarely discuss it in public. Losing is bad for the image, dude. Nobody buys Hot Tips from Losers. Remember that.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “There was no moon, but I could hear the surf a few yards in front of us. I spread my filthy cord coat on the sand for a pillow, then fell down and went to sleep.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “McGovern is the only major candidate – including Lindsay and Muskie – who invariably gives a straight answer when people raise these questions. He lines out the painful truth, and his reward has been just about the same as that of any other politician who insists on telling the truth: He is mocked, vilified, ignored, and abandoned as a hopeless loser by even his good old buddies like Harold Hughes. On.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “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.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “Whatever else might be said about Nixon – and there is still serious doubt in my mind that he could pass for Human – he is a goddamn stone fanatic on every facet of pro football.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “The difference between the student radicals and the Hell’s Angels is that the students are rebelling against the past, while the Angels are fighting the future. Their only common ground is their disdain for the present, or the status quo.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “No, it was too much. The line between madness and masochism was already hazy; the time had come to pull back... to retire, hunker down, back off and “cop out,” as it were. Why not? in every gig like this, there comes a time to either cut your losses or consolidate your winnings – whichever fits.”
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