Quotes by Hunter S. Thompson

About Hunter S. Thompson:

Hunter Stockton Thompson was an American journalist and author, and the founder of the gonzo journalism movement. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, to a middle-class family, Thompson had a turbulent youth after the death of his father left the family in poverty. He was unable to formally finish high school as he was incarcerated for 60 days after abetting a robbery. He subsequently joined the United States Air Force before moving into journalism. He traveled frequently, including stints in California, Puerto Rico, and Brazil, before settling in Aspen, Colorado, in the early 1960s.
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Across the board... Not junkies or freaks, but people who were just as comfortable with drugs like weed, booze, or coke as we are - and we're not weird, are we? Hell no, we're just overworked professionals who need to relax now and then, have a bit o...

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In the spring of 1990 I flew to Aspen, Colorado, to cover a summit meeting between Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President George Herbert Walker Bush. This fairly routine political event took on sudden significance when, on the evening before ...

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Well," he said. "I hope to God I never make forty -- I wouldn't know what to do with myself.

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They claimed no allegiance to any flag and valued no currency but luck and good contacts.

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I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.

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I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a certain nostalgia for it when I see a big white racing yacht heeled over at cruising speed on the ocean, and I can still tie a mean bowline knot ...

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There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.

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I have always loved blizzards, if only because of the driving experience - which is definitely an acquired taste.

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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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Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.

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One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won't have to go looking for trouble, because trouble wi...

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

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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 ...

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I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is par...

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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.

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Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today's winners are tomorrow's blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope.

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Buy the ticket, take the ride.

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I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your head - big darkness, soon come - but every once in a while you get a fair chance to have it both ways, and the annual NCAA basketball Tournament is one o...

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The only thing wrong with the NBA - or any other professional sport, for that matter - is a wild epidemic of Dumbness and overweening Greed. There is no Mystery about it, and no need to change any rules.

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I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.

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I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination.

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Author Bio

  • NameHunter S. Thompson
  • DescriptionAmerican journalist and author
  • Aliases?????? ?. ???????
  • BornJuly 18, 1939
  • DiedFebruary 20, 2005
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJournalist; Novelist; Reporter; Essayist; Writer; Autobiographer
  • WorksHell's Angels: The Strange And Terrible Saga Of The Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs; The Rum Diary; Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas; Fear And Loathing On The Campaign Trail '72; The Curse Of Lono