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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Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.

Hunter S. Thompson

You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.

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

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

By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.

Hunter S. Thompson

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

Hunter S. Thompson

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

Hunter S. Thompson

I was 22 when JFK was murdered, and I will never recover from it... Never.

Hunter S. Thompson

I've already become a mastodon in print - I don't see a consciousness for my kind of journalism.

Hunter S. Thompson

The Raiders of old were vicious and crazy and cruel. Hanging around their locker room was like hanging around the weight room at Folsom Prison.

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In my heart, I am always a Raider.

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There is no fool like a careless gambler who starts taking victory for granted.

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Richard Nixon was a criminally insane Monster - Bill Clinton is a black-hearted Swine of a friend.

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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The next MVP of the Super Bowl is just as likely to have been a full-time grocery store bagger last year as a Heisman Trophy winner.

Hunter S. Thompson

I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it.

Hunter S. Thompson

With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.

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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 can't think in terms of journalism without thinking in terms of political ends. Unless there's been a reaction, there's been no journalism. It's cause and effect.

Hunter S. Thompson

I guess that's one of the things about growing up in the fifties - it never occurred to me that you wouldn't be at least as successful as your parents.

Hunter S. Thompson

Richard Nixon was an evil man - evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency.

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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