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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As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant medio...

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The Hell's Angels try not to do anything halfway, and anyone who deals in extremes is bound to cause trouble, whether he means to or not. This, along with a belief in total retaliation for any offense or insult, is what makes the Hell's Angels unmana...

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Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

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Duke is an ugly word in Kentucky. Nothing in the world compares to the joy of beating those hateful swine from Duke.

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There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

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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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I am an Addictive Personality, they say, a natural slave to passion - and many Doctors have warned me against it. I am a High-risk Patient.

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If Sunday is the Lord's day, then Saturday belongs to the Devil. It is the only night of the week when he gives out Free passes to the Late show at the Too Much Fun Club.

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A word to the wise is infuriating.

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I wasn't trying to be an outlaw writer. I never heard of that term; somebody else made it up. But we were all outside the law: Kerouac, Miller, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Kesey; I didn't have a gauge as to who was the worst outlaw. I just recognized allies...

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By disgracing and degrading the presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart of the American Dream.

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I have always hated bowling, and I don't mind admitting it.

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All gamblers lose regularly, but they rarely discuss it in public. Losing is bad for the image, dude. Nobody buys Hot Tips from Losers. Remember that.

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Without gambling, I would not exist.

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The behavior of the crowd at Churchill Downs is like 100,000 vicious Hyenas going berserk all at once in a space about the size of a 777 jet or the White House lawn.

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

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

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I don't think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It's lonely out here.

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Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn't anticipate.

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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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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