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Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “The root assumption here is that neither party would nominate a man more than 20 percent different from the type of person most Americans consider basically right and acceptable. Which almost always happens. There is no potentially serious candidate in either major party this year who couldn’t pass for the executive vice-president for mortgage loans in any hometown bank from Bangor to San Diego. We.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “The Angels are not articulate about many things, but they bring a lover’s inspiration to the subject of bikes.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “I’ve been studying drugs for years.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “This wavering paradox is a pillar of the outlaw stance. A man who has blown all his options can’t afford the luxury of changing his ways. He has to capitalize on whatever he has left, and he can’t afford to admit-no matter how often he’s reminded of it-that every day of his life takes him farther down a blind alley.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “It is like sitting in a traffic jam on the San Diego Freeway with your windows rolled up and Portuguese music booming out of the surround-sound speakers while animals gnaw on your neck and diseased bill collectors hammer on your doors with golf clubs.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “It was easy to understand why Sala didn’t mind sharing; neither of us ever went there except to change clothes or sleep. Night after night I would sit uselessly at Al’s, drinking myself into a stupor because I couldn’t stand the idea of going back to the apartment.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “The car suddenly veered off the road and we came to a sliding halt in the gravel. I was hurled against the dashboard. My attorney was slumped over the wheel. “What’s wrong?” I yelled. “We can’t stop here. This is bat country!”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “Well,” he said. “I hope to God I never make forty – I wouldn’t know what to do with myself.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “It’s much more fun to run a political campaign than it is to be the candidate.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “If you consider the great journalists in history, you don’t see too many objective journalists on that list.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “I measure my life in pages. If I have pages at dawn, it’s been a good night.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “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.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “Hungry people have the cunning of wild beasts.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “I harbor a secret urge to whack a salesman in the face, crack his teeth and put red bumps around his eyes.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “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 Quote: “When Nixon went into New Hampshire, he was viewed by the pros as just another of these stubborn, right-wing waterheads with nothing better to do.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “I wouldn’t be at all surprised, as hideous and dumb as it sounds, at an invasion of Iraq.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “O. J. Simpson drew bigger crowds, but most of his admirers were around 12 years old. Two-thirds of them were black and many looked like fugitives from the Credit Bureau’s garnishee file.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “Losing in New Hampshire was usually permanent, and winning was a guaranteed fast ride to somewhere – maybe the White House – or at least a fiery exit. Probably soon, but so what?”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “Every now and then you have to get away from that ugly Old Politics trip, or it will drive you to kicking the walls and hurling AR3′s into the fireplace.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “I guess that’s one of the things about growing up in the fifties – it never occurred to me that you wouldn’t be at least as successful as your parents.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “I think you either have to have a very strong decisive person at the top or else a really brilliant staff command.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “Any candidate who’d offered a real possibility of an alternative to Nixon – someone with a different concept of the presidency – could have challenged him and come very close to beating him.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “Cover a war in a place where you can’t drink beer or talk to a woman? Hell no!”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime, or at least a Main Era- the kind of peak that never comes again. San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be apart of. Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run... but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “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.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “Las Vegas makes Reno seem like your friendly neighborhood grocery store.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “Oral Roberts is a greed-crazed white-trash lunatic who should have been hung upside down from a telephone pole on the outskirts of Tulsa 44 years ago, before he somehow transmogrified into the money-sucking animal that he became when he discovered television.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “I have always loved blizzards, if only because of the driving experience – which is definitely an acquired taste.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “I may sound a little black, but I’m really pretty well adjusted.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “ROSS PEROT was the best thing that happened in American politics since Richard Nixon acquired a taste for gin. In both cases, the political dialogue of the day was enriched by spontaneous gibberish that entertained the wrong people and made the right ones question their faith.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “Yeah, I guess I am,” said one. “But you’re looking at one loser who’s going to make a hell of a scene on the way out.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “Look what happened the last time a Republican president tried to fix a doomed national economy. Remember Herbert Hoover?”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “It was the tension between these two poles – a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other – that kept me going.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “You have to be very mean to get a laugh on the campaign trail. There is no such thing as paranoia.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “For all his Caribbean clothes and his Madison Avenue manners, even with his surfside apartment and his Alfa Romeo roadster, there was so much Kansas in Sanderson that it was embarrassing to see him deny it.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “The bulk of the crowd looked like professors and their wives from Amherst. One of the problems, according to a bushy young radical-talking non-student from Boston, was that you had to pay a “registration fee” of two dollars before you got a vote.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “And only those who can see above and beyond the American goal of respectable mediocrity can enjoy a life that leads to anything but a struggle to attain that end.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “Living on pills, phone calls unmade, people unseen, pages unwritten, money unmade, pressure piling up all around to make some kind of breakthrough and get moving again. Get the gum off the rails, finish something, croak this awful habit of not ever getting to the end- of anything.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “He gave my hand a final shake. “Okay, Kemp,” he said with a grin. “Thanks a lot – you came through like a champ.” “Hell,” I said, starting the engine. “We’re all champs when we’re drunk.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “Young George spent more money on one day of his Inauguration Ceremonies than Richard Nixon did on his whole Campaign in 1972 – and Nixon was crucified as a Criminal Spendthrift with the ethics of a snake.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “You will be flogged for being right and flogged for being wrong, and it hurts both ways – but it doesn’t hurt as much when you’re right.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “All around us were people I had spent ten years avoiding – shapeless women in wool bathing suits, dull-eyed men with hairless legs and self-conscious laughs, all Americans, all fearsomely alike. These people should be kept at home, I thought; lock them in the basement of some goddamn Elks Club and keep them pacified with erotic movies; if they want a vacation, show them a foreign art film; and if they still aren’t satisfied, send them into the wilderness and run them with vicious dogs.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “I felt a little guilty about jangling the poor bugger’s brains with that evil fantasy. But what the hell? Anybody who wanders around the world saying, “Hell yes, I’m from Texas,” deserves whatever happens to him.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “You’d be surprised at the things people will do in order to get their names or pictures in the paper.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “They were professionally deviant, but they had a few things in common. They depended, mostly from habit, on newspapers and magazines for the bulk of their income; their lives were geared to long chances and sudden movement; and they claimed no allegiance to any flag and valued no currency but luck and good contacts.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “Superstar politicians and superstar quarterbacks have the same kind of delicate egos, and people who life on that level grow very accustomed to very thin, rarified air. They have trouble breathing in the lower altitudes; and if they can’t breath right, they can’t function.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “There is something about the sight of a passing motorcyclist that tempts many automobile drivers to commit murder.”
Hunter S. Thompson Quote: “The importance of Liking Yourself is a notion that fell heavily out of favor during the coptic, anti-ego frenzy of the Acid Era – but nobody guessed back then that the experiment might churn up this kind of hangover: a whole subculture of frightened illiterates with no faith in anything.”
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