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Hunter S. Thompson

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DOUGLAS BRINKLEY 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 February was always the cruelest month for Hunter S. Thompson. An avid NFL fan, Hunter traditionally...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON 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 I think that standup has always been an acquired taste and there was always only a handful of perfor...
MARC MARON February was always the cruelest month for Hunter S. Thompson. An avid NFL fan, Hunter traditionally...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.
SAUL WILLIAMS Over the years, we worked on some promising projects that Hunter could do while never leaving the Fa...
JAY COWAN 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 Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
ERICA JONG Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Reality is an acquired taste.
ROBERT FRITZ I remember the Neil Young brand hitting me very hard immediately. He wasn't an acquired taste. I...
JONATHAN DEMME [Does Piazza feel jazz is an acquired taste?] If by 'acquired taste' you mean that jazz resists imme...
TOM PIAZZA Even now, more than 30 years later, I still judge people on the basis of whether they voted for Jack...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON My dream dinner party guests would be Ethel Kennedy, Truman Capote and Hunter S. Thompson.
DYLAN PENN The proper bookmark for a Hunter Thompson book is a pair of brass knuckles.
JONATHAN HEATT I have never loved, Watson, but if I did and if the woman I loved had met such an end, I might act e...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE I feel like I've known Hunter S. Thompson for most of my life. I first encountered him in 1981, ...
TUCKER CARLSON Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
KATHERINE F. GEROULD Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
KATHARINE ELIZABETH FULLERTON GEROULD Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
KATHERINE F. GEROULD I always loved comic books when I was growing up, and Spider-Man was definitely a character I gravit...
DRAKE BELL I was always drawn to the blues. Alberta Hunter at the Cookery was a life-changing experience. I onl...
BONNIE RAITT I designed 'Buffy' to be an icon, to be an emotional experience, to be loved in a way that o...
JOSS WHEDON Don’t spit, swallow: there is protein and other good stuff in male semen; it’s an acquired taste...
CHLOE THURLOW A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately.
ELEANOR ROBSON BELMONT I've always loved the experience of working together with other people toward an artistic goal.
TREY ANASTASIO I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things.
TORI AMOS Twombly, frankly, was an acquired taste. I was not in love with Twombly the first time I saw one of ...
ELI BROAD We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquire...
CHARLES LAMB People such as Hunter S. Thompson and the Beats were a huge influence on me, not just in what they w...
COREY TAYLOR Millions of items in the outward order are present to my senses which never properly enter into my e...
WILLIAM JAMES For sure, I'm an acquired taste. People who've had that acquisition, who've acquired it,...
DAVID COSTABILE I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little thi...
TORI AMOS It was an interesting experience because we got to share and spend time with other people who have c...
BRETT LEE We are drifting into some ugly parallels here, and if I'd written this kind of thing two years ago I...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.
CYRIL CONNOLLY You don't have to drink this," I said, handing him the champagne. "But Sandy might like it".
"N...
JAY COWAN I have always been an animal lover. I had a hard time disassociating the animals I cuddled with - do...
KRISTEN BELL Always listen to an expert, not because they are always right but because they have more experience ...
LILY CHATTERJEE About a week earlier I had finished a book (on the Hell's Angels, scheduled this fall by Random Hous...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.
DELPHINE DE GIRARDIN I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only se...
FRANCOIS SAGON Much that is great in literature is an acquired taste, and you have to acquire it in the first place...
MICHAEL MORPURGO I'm an actor because I love movies, and always have loved movies. I'm a film buff.
ALDEN EHRENREICH I will only observe, that that ethereal sense - sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of...
JEAN ANTHELME BRILLAT-SAVARIN I loved 'Truly Madly Deeply' and all those 1990s romcoms because you had great actresses lik...
HELEN GEORGE Throughout our history we have seen the careers of some of the nation's most notable journalists flo...
JANN WENNER I love you Daddy, not because you always loved my, because you are always living inside of me as an ...
DEBASISH MRIDHA Just as many people flee Hollywood as those who flock to it. Hollywood can be an acquired taste.
SHAWN AMOS As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
FELIX BAUMGARTNER I told my agent which women I aspire to have a career like: Frances McDormand, Kate Winslet, Laura L...
RACHAEL HARRIS If this would have happened while he was driving down the highway, it could have definitely caused s...
DAVID ROE Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.
JOSEPH ROUX Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.
JOSEPH ROUX Well, if you're suspecting your lover is having an affair, it's definitely devastating. It&#...
AMANDA SEYFRIED But in the back of my mind I've always looked to the biggest-scale Hollywood movies. Because to ...
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN Maybe you could put it out there that I don't have a built-in dislike of ballads. That was kind ...
JOE PERRY The woods are always empty if you're a poor hunter.
UNKNOWN If you go to a movie and it's a great experience, the experience at the end of it is always like...
CARLTON CUSE Comic-Con has been an amazing experience. It's overwhelming, I have to admit, because of the lin...
KUNAL NAYYAR It's quite an experience, ... The car is only 500 pounds heavier, but it felt much bigger. Definitel...
ALLISON DUNCAN Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.
JOSEPH ROUX You can't control your popularity; I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody w...
TORI AMOS Matrimony is a process by which a grocer acquired an account the florist had.
FRANCES RODMAN What I always loved about theater is that that's an experience that a company of actors just sin...
ZELJKO IVANEK I have always loved story - I escaped within it as a child, I read every day, I love figuring out th...
KIRSTEN PROUT The rich get richer. Not only because they have surpluses with which to invest, but because of the o...
STUART WILDE There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The Ned Kelly is definitely the coolest of all the crime fiction awards, and if you think about it, ...
ADRIAN MCKINTY I know it's an experience that I need to have if God's putting me through it.
LIL WAYNE If you pour everything you have into this life, this world, which is temporary and fading, you're je...
CRAIG GROESCHEL I am so enriched because so much has happened in my life. The way I can express myself is because of...
BIPASHA BASU [Miami, Florida-based Attorney Jack Thompson has once again called for a game to be given an Adults ...
JACK THOMPSON Whether it's an innate ability or an acquired way of regarding the world around us, being labele...
ALAN ZWEIBEL The waitress had the appearance of a very old hooker who had finally found her place in life
HUNTER S. THOMPSON The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which has to be acquired with difficulty.
CHARLES SANDERS PEIRCE The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which has to be acquired with difficulty.
CHARLES SANDERS PEIRCE In reality, speaking in tongues is an acquired skill. At the time, I thought I was undergoing a spir...
MICHAEL O'KEEFE That which is loved is always beautiful
NORWEGIAN PROVERB I have always loved fashion because it's a great way to express your mood. And I'm definitel...
FERGIE More important, it's because God is our only true source of life.
CRAIG GROESCHEL I had to take driving lessons in New York, which were really weird because it's not the safest t...
JORDANA BREWSTER Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter
AFRICAN PROVERB Because of the Thames I have always loved inland waterways - water in general, water sounds - there&...
JULIE ANDREWS It's very fun to be the hunter of the sounds. The hunter of the right energy. And it's not r...
AURORA Failure is only an experience. Experience is the foundation of any success.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA They should make earplugs for people who are grieving, so we don't have to hear the stupid things pe...
CAROLE GEITHNER I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence o...
PHILIP WARREN ANDERSON Until the lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.
AFRICAN PROVERB Comedy taste changes. It only changes slightly, but there's always a different angle, a differen...
RONNIE CORBETT I wasn't that into crime novels at all, but a friend introduced me to the work of Jim Thompson -...
JO NESBO My father superintended the English part of my education, and to his care I am indebted for anything...
JOHN MARSHALL I like an interesting movie even if it's controversial or offensive, depending on your taste.
ADAM BRODY

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HUNTER S. THOMPSON You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.
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Hell no!"
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HUNTER S. THOMPSON I felt a little guilty about jangling the poor bugger's brains with that evil fantasy. But what the ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusi...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness ... Fear and Loathing ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered f...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON It never got weird enough for me.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Even now, more than 30 years later, I still judge people on the basis of whether they voted for Jack...
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