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Hunter S. Thompson

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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
WILLIAM FAULKNER We are drifting into some ugly parallels here, and if I'd written this kind of thing two years ago I...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON We have bigger things to brood on and enormous reasons for wallowing in terminal craziness until we ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Over the years, we worked on some promising projects that Hunter could do while never leaving the Fa...
JAY COWAN Joe Klein is the flower of American political journalism, a sharp raconteur who shows traces of the ...
THOMAS FRANK Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The truth is that The Wild One -- despite an admittedly fictional treatment -- was an inspired piece...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON TV journalism is a much more collaborative, horizontal business than print reporting. It has to be, ...
TINA BROWN In journalism, anything that we do as journalists that confuses the public about our ability to be i...
AL TOMPKINS Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how relia...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL I'm saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad...
DANIEL OKRENT one contribution to a new phase of citizen journalism in which the tools of the web are used along w...
LEWIS FRIEDLAND [Ken] Kesey practices what has come to be known as gonzo journalism. The reporter, often intoxicated...
R. Z. SHEPPARD There was a time when journalism meant impartial reporting.
MUHAMMED HAIDER The upside of web-based journalism is that everybody gets a chance. The downside is that everybody g...
AARON SORKIN Before Truman, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously. Journalism was seen as a hac...
GERALD CLARKE But then just days after it came out, I began to get calls and letters from all over the country say...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism.
SCOTT PELLEY I don't think it is just in the world of politics. The lack of civility in society as a whole, s...
KAREN HANDEL Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism
TRISTAN TZARA There's a lot of essay writing that could pass for journalism and journalism that could pass for...
EULA BISS One of the sad things about contemporary journalism is that it actually matters very little. The wor...
DAVID SIMON Journalism is a craft that takes years to learn. It's like golf. You never get it right all the ...
BEN HUH I think the best of it is that journalism knows it has not done its best. That is new.
JEFF JARVIS Peter Jennings represented all that was best in journalism and public service. His reporting was a g...
CONDOLEEZZA RICE Computer hackers are the true journalists in the 21st Century. The old journalism is worse than dead...
A.E. SAMAAN The dawn is killing me off, the fog is on the windows, the [ra]coons have robbed the cans, and down ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Coming of age in a fascist police state will not be a barrel of fun for anybody, much less for peopl...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.
RUSSELL BAKER American journalism (like the journalism of any other country) is predominantly paltry and worthless...
H.L. MENCKEN I think the term 'fair reporting' is overused when it comes to journalism. I think saying th...
LARRY WILMORE Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my her...
ANDREW VACHSS Confrontation is not a dirty word. Sometimes it's the best kind of journalism as long you don't conf...
DON HEWITT Be careful. Journalism is more addictive than crack cocaine. Your life can get out of balance.
DAN RATHER Art is art, and journalism is journalism.
LANCE REDDICK I realize that I had the best of serious picture journalism.
EVE ARNOLD All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in...
DICK SCHAAP All of journalism is a shrinking art, ... So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmar...
DICK SCHAAP The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is ...
OSCAR WILDE The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable, and literature is...
OSCAR WILDE I personally think honestly disclosing rather than hiding one's subjective values makes for more...
GLENN GREENWALD Before Truman, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously.
GERALD CLARKE You don't have to drink this," I said, handing him the champagne. "But Sandy might like it".
"N...
JAY COWAN The quality of life in America is dependent on the quality of the journalism. Most people don't ...
SCOTT PELLEY I had sort of given up on conventional journalism. I found it far too restrictive.
MOLLY IVINS Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING The proper bookmark for a Hunter Thompson book is a pair of brass knuckles.
JONATHAN HEATT As for LSD, I highly recommend it. We had a fine, wild weekend and no trouble at all. The feeling it...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON The brutal reality of politics would be probably intolerable without drugs.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Autobiography should be more stringent. It should adhere more to the standards of journalism - assum...
FRANK MCCOURT I found in investigative journalism it is always best, if you have any language skills, not to admit...
JULIAN ASSANGE Ah well, to the journalist every country is rich.
EVELYN WAUGH As a rule there is one thing you can always count on in our job — popularity. There are plenty of ...
EVELYN WAUGH Unlike other relationships that have a purpose beyond themselves and are clearly delineated as such ...
JANET MALCOLM Like the young Aztec men and women selected for sacrifice, who lived in delightful ease and luxury u...
JANET MALCOLM He never asked me what I thought, and I never told him what I thought, because in my view that's the...
JANET MALCOLM Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of ...
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. W...
DAN RATHER Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the ...
G. K. CHESTERTON But what is the difference between literature and journalism?
...Journalism is unreadable and li...
OSCAR WILDE Minds that have withered into psychosis are far more terrifying than any character of fiction.
CHRISTIAN BALOGA What [is] really true is the fact that journalism is a tough job. It's a job that requires a lot of ...
AARON HARBERTS There is a huge difference between journalism and advertising. Journalism aspires to truth. Advertis...
JEF I. RICHARDS Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the ...
G. K. CHESTERTON I don't think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It's lonely out ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON February was always the cruellest month for Hunter S Thompson,
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY Journalism is in fact history on the run.
THOMAS GRIFFITH I think the business of journalism is in a very desperate strait right now. And that might be the be...
THOMAS KUNKEL Memory is the personal journalism of the soul.
RICHARD SCHICKEL Before Truman Capote, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously.
GERALD CLARKE The anchoring job of the evening news is still the most prestigious job in American journalism, cert...
ROBERT ZELNICK There is a huge difference between journalism and advertising. Journalism aspires to truth. Advertis...
JEF I. RICHARDS Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE Journalism is the first rough draft of history.
OSCAR WILDE In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one si...
GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ Don't count out other amazing programming like Frontline. You will still find more hours of in-d...
GWEN IFILL We need to recognise that the whole edifice of our fifth estate, of our journalism, has been built o...
MALCOLM TURNBULL It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.
TOM BROKAW Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intel...
MAX WEBER In journalism I can only tell what happened. In fiction, I can show it.
DAVID FRUM Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism. The rest, called literature, is...
TRISTAN TZARA Fiction just has a lot more room for ambivalence and internal conflict, contradiction, and for me th...
AMY WALDMAN Journalism is not just a cause, it's also a wacky profession.
DAVID TALBOT Hal's Sunday column was the best-read piece of journalism in Northeast Ohio.
DAN COUGHLIN God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not...
TOM WOLFE Her journalism represents the best principles in the field.
KAREN LIST Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, a...
ANDREW VACHSS In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate t...
HAROLD EVANS Journalism is a team sport. Writing novels is golf: it's you and the ball.
PETE HAMILL I can't think in terms of journalism without thinking in terms of political ends. Unless there&#...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON One of the worst incidents of that era caused no complaints at all: this was a sort of good-natured ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON OK for now. I enjoyed my quick, high-powered visit over there and look forward to a dead-game replay...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challengin...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Journalism is the entertainment business.
FRANK HERBERT Journalism is literature in a hurry.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Journalism is organized gossip.
EDWARD EGGLESTON There is a certain concentrated, avid-for-blood look that appears on the faces of reporters on the t...
JOHN VARLEY I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term w...
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HUNTER S. THOMPSON was doldrums time.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Be a beachcomber, a Parisian wino, an Italian pimp, or a Danish pervert; but stay away from the Arme...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Who are these people? These faces? Where did they come from? They look like caricatures of used car ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON So this is how the world works, all energy flows according to the whims of the great magnet.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON So much for Objective Journalism. Don't bother to look for it here--not under any byline of mine; or...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON I agreed. By this time the drink was beginning to cut the acid and my hallucinations were down to a ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON On the way down the hill we walked three abreast in the cobblestone street, drunk and laughing and t...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON No doubt they all Got What Was Coming To Them. All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstanc...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON 1) Never trust a cop in a raincoat.
2) Beware of enthusiasm and of love, both are temporary and...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name.

Remembered line from a long-
HUNTER S. THOMPSON The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON It is Autumn, as you know, and things are beginning to die. It is so wonderful to be out in the cris...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON and the sad notes floated out to the
patio and hung in the trees like birds too tired to fly
HUNTER S. THOMPSON I bought a small bottle of beer for fifteen cents and sat on a bench in the clearing, feeling like a...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years p...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Those of us who have been up all night were in no mood for coffee and donuts. We wanted strong drink...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON We are all wired into a survival trip now. No more of the speed that fueled that 60's. That was the ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pim...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Fear is just another word for ignorance
HUNTER S. THOMPSON I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Some may never live, but the crazy never die
HUNTER S. THOMPSON We were warriors then, and our tribe was strong like a river
HUNTER S. THOMPSON This was the fatal flaw in Tim Leary's trip. He crashed around America selling "conciousness expansi...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Still humping the American Dream
HUNTER S. THOMPSON The possibility of physical and mental collapse is now very real. No sympathy for the Devil, keep th...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Jesus Creeping God! Is there a priest in this tavern? I want to confess! I'm a fucking sinner! Venal...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Ignore that nightmare in the bathroom. Just another ugly refugee from the Love Generation, some doom...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON My blood is too thick for California: I have never been able to properly explain myself in this clim...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON What kind of rat bastard psychotic would play that song- right now, at this moment?
HUNTER S. THOMPSON