I have thought this way several times in my life but only when circumstances have led me to a bad pass. No man who has chosen well and wisely will ever credit it to fate; the only real fatalist is a man on his way down the pipe. There is no solace in fatalism.
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THOMPSON A cap of good acid costs five dollars and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony with God sing... HUNTER S. THOMPSON In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile. HUNTER S. THOMPSON Cover a war in a place where you can't drink beer or talk to a woman? Hell no!" HUNTER S. THOMPSON Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure i... HUNTER S. THOMPSON History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of history i... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Buy the ticket take the Ride HUNTER S. THOMPSON If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would ... HUNTER S. THOMPSON I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. HUNTER S. THOMPSON We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. 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 What kind of rat bastard psychotic would play that song- right now, at this moment? HUNTER S. THOMPSON