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There's no point in getting into politics at all unless you plan to lash things around. — 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

There may be flies on you and me, but there are no flies on Jesus. — Hunter S. Thompson

And the whole Bush family, from Texas, should be boiled in poisoned oil. — 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

Things are no longer what they seem to be. My telephones are haunted, and animals whisper at me from unseen places. — Hunter S. Thompson

The Sixties were an era of extreme reality. I miss the smell of tear gas. I miss the fear of getting beaten. — Hunter S. Thompson

The McGovern/McCarthy type candidacies have disappointed too many people, because of a disillusionment with the candidates themselves. — Hunter S. Thompson

It was an educated fear of the coming shit-rain — Hunter S. Thompson

The reefer butt is called a 'roach' because it resembles a cockroach ... cockroach ... cockroach ... — Hunter S. Thompson

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

Not even the foulest atrocities of Adolf Hitler ever shocked me so badly as these Abu Ghraib photographs did. — 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

I was so far beyond simple fatigue that I was beginning to feel nicely adjusted to the idea of permanent hysteria. — Hunter S. Thompson

Our vibrations were getting nasty. But why? Was there no communication in this car? Had we deteriorated to the level of dumb beasts? — 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

Hey, honkies!" my attorney screamed. "Goddamnit, I'm serious! I want to sell you some pure fuckin' smack! — Hunter S. Thompson

With rare exceptions, the outlaw bike is a Harley 74, — Hunter S. Thompson

Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something. — Hunter S. Thompson

The sun woke me up the next morning. I sat up and groaned. My clothes were full of sand. — 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. — Hunter S. Thompson

'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

Hungry people have the cunning of wild beasts. — Hunter S. Thompson

I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth. — Hunter S. Thompson

I had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth. — Hunter S. Thompson

Fear? I know not fear. There are only moments of confusion. — Hunter S. Thompson

It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear. — Hunter S. Thompson

Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president. — Hunter S. Thompson

Platitudes are safe, because they're easy to wink at, but truth is something else again. — Hunter S. Thompson

What election?" he asked. "Never mind," I said. "I was only kidding." One — Hunter S. Thompson

Don't take any guff from these swine. — Hunter S. Thompson

With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree. — Hunter S. Thompson

Journalism is a low trade and a habit worse than heroin, a strange seedy world of misfits and drunkards and failures. — Hunter S. Thompson

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

Wake up and ponder the future — Hunter S. Thompson

Truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen. — Hunter S. Thompson

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

I'm bound to go to heaven because I've already served my time in hell. — Hunter S. Thompson

We are going out again in search of the American dream. — Hunter S. Thompson

There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment. — Hunter S. Thompson

Good people drink good beer. — Hunter S. Thompson

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

The point is valid: the difference between survival and wipe-out in a physical crisis is nearly always a matter of conditioned reflexes. — Hunter S. Thompson

The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it. — Hunter S. Thompson

If you consider the great journalists in history, you don't see too many objective journalists on that list. — Hunter S. Thompson

Though I was careful never to mention it, I began to see a new dimension in everything that happened. — Hunter S. Thompson

It's 12 amyl nitrites (one box), in conjunction with as many beers as necessary. — Hunter S. Thompson

I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem. — Hunter S. Thompson

Have an objective to give your bender a theme. For instance, stalking and killing a wild pig with a bowie knife. — Hunter S. Thompson

At age 22 I set what I insist is an all-time record for distance hitchhiking in Bermuda shorts: 3,700 miles in three weeks. — Hunter S. Thompson

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 — Hunter S. Thompson

A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long. — Hunter S. Thompson

Real happiness, in politics, is a wide-open hammer shot on some poor bastard who knows he's been trapped, but can't flee. — Hunter S. Thompson

Reality itself is too twisted. — Hunter S. Thompson

It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids. — Hunter S. Thompson

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

Get out of control, but appear under control. It?s not bad to alarm other people, though ? it?s good for them. — Hunter S. Thompson

Paranoia is just another mask for ignorance. The truth, when you finally chase it down is almost always far worse than your darkest visions and fears — Hunter S. Thompson

You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands. — Hunter S. Thompson

The crazy never die. — Hunter S. Thompson

You have to be very mean to get a laugh on the campaign trail. There is no such thing as paranoia. — 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

We have bigger things to brood on and enormous reasons for wallowing in terminal craziness until we finally hit bottom. — Hunter S. Thompson

Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life. — Hunter S. Thompson

I learned from # Hemingway that you could be a # writer and get away with it. — 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

Cover a war in a place where you can't drink beer or talk to a woman? Hell no! — Hunter S. Thompson

Once I establish credit, I may be able to function. A man needs credit. Especially when he has no money. — Hunter S. Thompson

Paranoia is just another word for ignorance. — Hunter S. Thompson

Everybody has the same chance but you need to be rich ... — Hunter S. Thompson

Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. — Hunter S. Thompson

Never mind the track. The track is for punks. We are Road People. We are Cafe Racers. — Hunter S. Thompson

Crack is ruining the drug culture. — 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. — Hunter S. Thompson

Too weird to live, too rare to die! — Hunter S. Thompson

It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it. — Hunter S. Thompson

To make a point of declaring friendship is to cheapen it. For men's emotions are very rarely put into words successfully. — Hunter S. Thompson

I wouldn't be at all surprised, as hideous and dumb as it sounds, at an invasion of Iraq. — 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

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

Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can't reach. — Hunter S. Thompson

I feel a powerful lust for red salmon.
I agreed. — Hunter S. Thompson

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

It never got weird enough for me. — Hunter S. Thompson

In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile. — Hunter S. Thompson

Las Vegas makes Reno seem like your friendly neighborhood grocery store. — Hunter S. Thompson

You won't find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains. — Hunter S. Thompson

I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me. — Hunter S. Thompson

The Angels are not articulate about many things, but they bring a lover's inspiration to the subject of bikes. — Hunter S. Thompson

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 ... — Hunter S. Thompson

I will fight for your right to be weird- just as I know you will fight for mine. — Hunter S. Thompson

I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness. — Hunter S. Thompson

Right' i said. 'but first, we need the car. and after that, the cocaine. and then the tape recorder, for special music, and some acapulco shirts. — Hunter S. Thompson

All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes. — Hunter S. Thompson

I knew a Buddhist once, and I've hated myself ever since. — Hunter S. Thompson

Freedom is something that dies unless it's used. — Hunter S. Thompson

If you can't make yourself understood by your friends, you'll be in trouble when your enemies come for you. — Hunter S. Thompson