Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

• The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.

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• The trouble with Nixon is that he’s a serious politics junkie. He’s totally hooked and like any other junkie, he’s a bummer to have around, especially as President.

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

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• The Edge… there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

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• 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.

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• Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

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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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• No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

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• It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

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• In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

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• If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.

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• 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.

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• I wouldn’t recommend s*x, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they’ve always worked for me.

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• I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

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• I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes.

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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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• For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

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• Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

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• Buy the ticket, take the ride.

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• 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.

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Birth:	18th July, 1937
Death:	20th February, 2005
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Journalist, Novelist

About

Hunter Stockton Thompson was born in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. He was an American journalist, author, novelist and the founder of the gonzo journalism movement. He worked for several magazines and newspapers include: The National Observer, The Nation, Rolling Stone, High Times, The San Francisco Examiner, The New York Times, and Esquire. He became internationally known with the publication of Hell's Angels. The work he remains best known for, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas(novel), constitutes a rumination on the failure of the 1960s counterculture movement. He wrote other books include: Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72, The Great Shark Hunt(essays), The Curse of Lono(memoir), Generation of Swine(essays), Songs of the Doomed(essays), Screw-Jack(short stories), Better Than Sex(essays), The proud highway, The Rum Diary(novel), Fear and Loathing in America, Kingdom of Fear, Hey Rube, and Ancient Gonzo Wisdom.

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