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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 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 The proper bookmark for a Hunter Thompson book is a pair of brass knuckles.
JONATHAN HEATT I feel like I've known Hunter S. Thompson for most of my life. I first encountered him in 1981, ...
TUCKER CARLSON February was always the cruelest month for Hunter S. Thompson. An avid NFL fan, Hunter traditionally...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY 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 When you criminalize something, only criminals can deal with it. When criminals deal with it, there&...
DON WINSLOW Even now, more than 30 years later, I still judge people on the basis of whether they voted for Jack...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON February was always the cruelest month for Hunter S. Thompson. An avid NFL fan, Hunter traditionally...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY My dream dinner party guests would be Ethel Kennedy, Truman Capote and Hunter S. Thompson.
DYLAN PENN Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for news...
JIMMY BRESLIN People such as Hunter S. Thompson and the Beats were a huge influence on me, not just in what they w...
COREY TAYLOR Revenge writing is a female genre. Men who have been left by women or made cuckolds by rivals either...
FRANCES WILSON Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of childr...
GRACE ABBOTT I grew up poor in crappy situations... various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and ...
COREY TAYLOR For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the be...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER ...those of us who write for children are called, not to do something to a child, but be someone for...
KATHERINE PATERSON One of the disconcerting things about writing for publication is that you're trying to clear you...
DARIN STRAUSS The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.
CRAIG GROESCHEL In modern times, Australia was the sole continent still inhabited only by hunter-gatherers... Native...
JARED DIAMOND Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don’t think anyone could have made me do it, or preve...
J.K. ROWLING Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to...
GARY F EVANS... To be honest, I am somebody that, as long as I have a character, it doesn't really matter if it&...
HANNAH TOINTON Once we hit forty, women only have about four taste buds left: one for vodka, one for wine, one for ...
GINA BARRECA Look, the point is there's no way to be a hundred percent sure about anyone or anything. So you're l...
SARAH DESSEN There are no words for this. I have only tears left.
MANUEL GONZALEZ I've tried singing like somebody else, and it never worked for me. The only thing that has ever ...
TAMAR BRAXTON I feel sorry for people who have to edit me. Which is why book writing is by far the most enjoyable....
CHUCK KLOSTERMAN There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.
LIBERTY HYDE BAILEY There is no accounting for taste and no taste for accounting.
KEVIN BYRNE Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that o...
ANATOLE FRANCE I'm such a horror geek, comic geek and action figure geek. I'm inspired by so much - from Hu...
COREY TAYLOR Etiquette is for people who have no breeding; fashion is for those who have no taste.
CHISWELL LANGHORNE As a media member, my goal is to inform the American fans of persons of character. It's a joy fo...
DOMINIQUE DAWES For me you're only a little boy just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need o...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY You Have Seen the Cure for Cancer Many Times, Even Right Now! So the Problem is Not Finding a Cure, ...
THEHEALTHFOODGURU I wish I could describe anything I do as conscious or strategized. To be honest, in acting, you have...
EDDIE REDMAYNE I don't have much in me left for Somalia, because the country is so broken, it's not realist...
AYAAN HIRSI ALI I see only one requirement you have to have to be a director or any kind of artist: rhythm. Rhythm, ...
ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ INARRITU Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
ROBERT BURNS Me call the president? If he has kicked me out, what for? He didn't call me either when I left.
LUIS FIGO So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's jus...
KURT LODER I really like comedy. There's always a choice, when you're writing: you can either go for th...
DAVID CHASE There is nothing to regret - either for those who go or for those who are left behind
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It is a struggle for the minds of the people... No cause justifies recourse to terrorism.
MANMOHAN SINGH Our Government is corrupted with politicians who make money off of the labor of honest men, so who i...
ANTHONY I. LANE Learn your instrument. Be honest. Don't do anything phony. There is so much crap floating around. Th...
CHRISTINE MCVIE I don't make a concerted effort to distinguish myself as Duncan D. Hunter versus Duncan Hunter. ...
DUNCAN D. HUNTER It's not for me. I tried human flesh and it's too salty for my taste.
IDI AMIN After numerous attempts to negotiate with Cisco, we were left with no other recourse but to file sui...
MICHAEL GREEN The existence of this Left Party is going to make it so much harder for either the centre-left on th...
GERD LANGGUTH People aren't honest about the horrors of fame. The downsides are so overwhelming that, for me, ...
SIA Aspire for riches for poverty pays no good, it only procures sorrow,misery & lack.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Meditation is a really powerful tool I have for life now. The only reason I know about it is because...
FLUME Only God can judge me so I'm gone, either love me or leave me alone.
JAY-Z I left Xerox for the non-profit sector because it was clear to me that only public/private partnersh...
ANNE M. MULCAHY No taste of food, no feel of water, no sound of wind, no memory of tree or grass or flower, no image...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN O'Casey was writing about people in the streets and his mother and dying babies and poverty. So ...
FRANK MCCOURT Learn your instrument. Be honest. Don't do anything phony. There is so much crap floating around...
CHRISTINE MCVIE We are drifting into some ugly parallels here, and if I'd written this kind of thing two years ago I...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Being honest is my job. That's what music is for me.
ERYKAH BADU The people it serves have no viable recourse.
ARTHUR C. HELTON We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with ...
MAHATMA GANDHI Before I came to Nashville, I played left or right, so it doesn't really matter for me. Maybe some g...
MARTIN ERAT That the author is speaking only to us, that he is writing only for us, that no one on Earth has the...
ADAM LANGER No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.
CYRIL CONNOLLY All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto eithe...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH No book or magazine article is for "everyone" so know your audience, then target them with your writ...
W. TERRY WHALIN I have little or no concern at how people interpret my writing, my only concern is to write it.
ROBERT BLACK You don't have to drink this," I said, handing him the champagne. "But Sandy might like it".
"N...
JAY COWAN We all have hometown appetites. Every other person is a bundle of longing for the simplicities of go...
CLEMENTINE PADDLEFORD I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I mak...
MAYA ANGELOU About every six to eight months, I run into a man who astounds me sexually, but between escapades, I...
SUE GRAFTON Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
THOMAS CARLYLE MAGGOTS! I only shit with the money in my poverty and all who envy and steal this money in my povert...
MUCOR DEDALIV RALUI If I think of a reader while I am writing, the only reader who really matters for me is my wife. It&...
ALEXI ZENTNER I think film writing, you're thinking in pictures, and stage writing, you're thinking in dia...
ZOE KAZAN Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring s...
THOMAS A KEMPIS We had, after all, no other recourse to protect ourselves, no other document, let's say, than th...
E. HOWARD HUNT About a week earlier I had finished a book (on the Hell's Angels, scheduled this fall by Random Hous...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON I have absolutely no where to go tonight. I have no house, so I'm coming here to the Western Wall ne...
ANITA TUCKER It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wro...
KURT VONNEGUT I don't really have any interest in allowing other people's kind of idiotic, unnecessary, ei...
ANDY BIERSACK What discoveries I made in the course of writing stories all begin with the particular, never the ge...
EUDORA WELTY As long as we only have to lie to the enemy, it's honest enough for me.
-Captain Tagon
HOWARD TAYLER I'm a working writer; this is my job. So it matters to me that it's good. I sweat over every...
ALEXANDRA FULLER There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me i...
CHINUA ACHEBE What matters is the one thing I do know for certain: God is with me.
CRAIG GROESCHEL I have been brought up in a world dominated by honor. I have known neither crime, poverty, nor betra...
SHAN SA Waiting so long... for 0 result?
DEYTH BANGER I can't praise a young lady who is alive only when people are admiring her, but as soon as she is le...
LEO TOLSTOY There is no sitting on the fence,its either you are for prosperity or for lack.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)

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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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HUNTER S. THOMPSON All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.
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HUNTER S. THOMPSON Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and w...
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HUNTER S. THOMPSON One of the few ways I can almost be certain I'll understand something is by sitting down and writing...
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HUNTER S. THOMPSON Old elephants limp off to the hills to die; old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves...
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HUNTER S. THOMPSON I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.
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HUNTER S. THOMPSON It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON A word to the wise is infuriating.
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Hell no!"
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HUNTER S. THOMPSON We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter aci...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Good people drink good beer.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics ar...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Richard Nixon was a criminally insane Monster - Bill Clinton is a black-hearted Swine of a friend.
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