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All energy flows according to the whims of the great Magnet. What a fool I was to defy him.
— Hunter S. Thompson
A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.
— Hunter S. Thompson
A man has to BE something; he has to matter.
— Hunter S. Thompson
Old God sure was in a good mood when he made this place.
— Hunter S. Thompson
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
Richard Nixon was a criminally insane Monster - Bill Clinton is a black-hearted Swine of a friend.
— Hunter S. Thompson
Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.
— Hunter S. Thompson
The McGovern/McCarthy type candidacies have disappointed too many people, because of a disillusionment with the candidates themselves.
— Hunter S. Thompson
Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.
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The reefer butt is called a 'roach' because it resembles a cockroach ... cockroach ... cockroach ...
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I couldn't imagine, and I don't say this with any pride, but I really couldn't imagine writing without a desperate deadline.
— Hunter S. Thompson
Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today's winners are tomorrow's blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope.
— Hunter S. Thompson
Children are like TV sets. When they start acting weird, whack them across the head with a big rubber basketball shoe.
— Hunter S. Thompson
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
— Hunter S. Thompson
With rare exceptions, the outlaw bike is a Harley 74,
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Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.
— Hunter S. Thompson
Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.
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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
All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name.Remembered line from a long-
forgotten poem — Hunter S. Thompson
Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it.
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'Crazy' is a term of art; 'Insane' is a term of law. Remember that, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble.
— Hunter S. Thompson
I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
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I had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth.
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I am a road man for the lords of karma.
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I keep my mouth shut now. I've turned into a professional coward.
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It was dangerous lunacy, but it was also the kind of thing a real connoisseur of edge-work could make an argument for.
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It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.
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Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.
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As long as I'm learning something, I figure I'm OK - it's a decent day.
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Journalism is a low trade and a habit worse than heroin, a strange seedy world of misfits and drunkards and failures.
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A man never stoops so low as when he rises to the challenge of politics.
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What do you want? Where's the goddamn ice I ordered? Where's the booze? There's a war on, man! People are being killed!
— Hunter S. Thompson
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
In my heart, I am always a Raider.
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The trade is meaningless. It is like trading a used mattress for a $300 bill.
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A cap of good acid costs five dollars and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony with God singing solo and Holy Ghost on drums.
— Hunter S. Thompson
Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.
— Hunter S. Thompson
A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.
— Hunter S. Thompson
For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.
— Hunter S. Thompson
Hubert Humphrey is a treacherous, gutless old ward-heeler who should be put in a goddamn bottle and sent out with the Japanese current.
— Hunter S. Thompson
As your attorney I advise you to get the chiliburger. It's a hamburger with chili on it.
— Hunter S. Thompson
The point is valid: the difference between survival and wipe-out in a physical crisis is nearly always a matter of conditioned reflexes.
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Las Vegas is not the kind of town where you want to drive down Main Street aiming a black bazooka-looking instrument at people.
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The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it.
— Hunter S. Thompson
Shoot the pasties off the nipples of a ten-foot bull-dyke and win a cotton-candy goat.
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Weird behavior is natural in smart children, like curiosity is to a kitten.
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I had come to regard him as a loner with no real past and a future so vague that there was no sense talking about it.
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Walk tall, kick ass, learn to speak Arabic, love music and never forget you come from a long line of truth seekers, lovers and warriors.
— Hunter S. Thompson
Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.
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In a generation of swine, the one-eyed pig is king.
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Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.
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Richard Nixon looks like a flaming liberal today, compared to a golem like George Bush. Indeed. Where is Richard Nixon now that we finally need him?
— Hunter S. Thompson
These things happen. One day you run everything, and the next dayyou run like a dog. — Hunter S. Thompson
I may sound a little black, but I'm really pretty well adjusted.
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I am a child of the American Century, and I feel a genetic commitment to understanding why it happened, and why I take it so personally.
— Hunter S. Thompson
I envied Yeamon and felt sorry for myself at the same time, because I had seen him in a moment that made all of my happiness seem dull.
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I went to the Democratic Convention as a journalist, and returned a cold-blooded revolutionary.
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Who said anything about slicing you up? ... I just wanted to carve a little Z on your foreheadnothing serious. — Hunter S. Thompson
Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn't anticipate.
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I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.
— Hunter S. Thompson
If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix.
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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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Like most of the others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser.
— Hunter S. Thompson
I'm a huge Hunter S. Thompson fan.
— Amber Heard
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
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Once I establish credit, I may be able to function. A man needs credit. Especially when he has no money.
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Gonzo journalism is a style of reporting based on William Faulkner's idea that the best fiction is far more true than any kind of journalism ...
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The Angels are not articulate about many things, but they bring a lover's inspiration to the subject of bikes.
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In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile.
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People such as Hunter S. Thompson and the Beats were a huge influence on me, not just in what they were saying, but how they said it.
— Corey Taylor
Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can't reach.
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Say,' I said. "What brings you out here at this hour of the morning, for a thing like this?"'The bus,' he said. — Hunter S. Thompson
It's in my interest, in ours perhaps, or maybe the interests of the greater good, for me to smoke a joint, and calm down.
— Hunter S. Thompson
Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer ... in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my friend.
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A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long.
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To make a point of declaring friendship is to cheapen it. For men's emotions are very rarely put into words successfully.
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I knew a Buddhist once, and I've hated myself ever since.
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I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom and pure mathematics
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It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.
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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.
— Hunter S. Thompson
A little bit of this town goes a very long way. After five days in Vegas you feel like you've been here for five years.
— Hunter S. Thompson
Cover a war in a place where you can't drink beer or talk to a woman? Hell no!
— Hunter S. Thompson
Now they looked like somebody had just sprayed their table with shit-mist. Nobody said a word. They ate quickly, and left without tipping. So
— Hunter S. Thompson
Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
— Hunter S. Thompson
Few people understand the psychology of dealing with a highway traffic cop.
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I've already become a mastodon in print - I don't see a consciousness for my kind of journalism.
— Hunter S. Thompson
There is nothing worse than a man in the throws of an ether bender.
— Hunter S. Thompson
In the argot of the cycle world the Harley is a "hog," and the outlaw bike is a "chopped hog.
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Look what happened the last time a Republican president tried to fix a doomed national economy. Remember Herbert Hoover?
— Hunter S. Thompson
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
I feel a powerful lust for red salmon.I agreed. — Hunter S. Thompson
They command a fascination, however reluctant, that borders on psychic masturbation.
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I learned from # Hemingway that you could be a # writer and get away with it.
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Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.
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You have to be very mean to get a laugh on the campaign trail. There is no such thing as paranoia.
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Though I was careful never to mention it, I began to see a new dimension in everything that happened.
— Hunter S. Thompson
Have an objective to give your bender a theme. For instance, stalking and killing a wild pig with a bowie knife.
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