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I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination.


Hunter S. Thompson

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HUNTER S. THOMPSON Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.
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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 Life is much weirder than fiction; nothing's more absurd.
PETER MULLAN Even now, more than 30 years later, I still judge people on the basis of whether they voted for Jack...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, ...
SUE MONK KIDD I feel like I've known Hunter S. Thompson for most of my life. I first encountered him in 1981, ...
TUCKER CARLSON It's weirder and more surprising than the other books. I think there are more places where it...
CORY DOCTOROW I think the last reality show I watched was the first 'Survivor'. That was a long time ago.
DAVID HENRIE I learned a long, long time ago, that I could accomplish things in this place we call reality and ye...
KEVIN WALKER 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 Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.
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DOUGLAS BRINKLEY One thing I learned a long time ago as a prosecutor is that it's tough to get people to obey a l...
ROY BARNES I think it's long overdue, and I believed that Doris Miller should have been honored a long time...
BILL FLORES I'm such a horror geek, comic geek and action figure geek. I'm inspired by so much - from Hu...
COREY TAYLOR I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped m...
BETTE MIDLER About a week earlier I had finished a book (on the Hell's Angels, scheduled this fall by Random Hous...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON It's a party that's being organized; it's not a protest. The carnival is not like it was...
MICHEL MARTELLY It was lucky. I did it once before against James? (Blake?s) brother Thomas, but that was a long time...
MARDY FISH Anyone who's seen me before knows that when it's fight time, I don't have much to say.
LAILA ALI My imagination is closer to a child's imagination than to a grown-up's.
MARY POPE OSBORNE You shoulda shot that fella a long time ago. Now he's too rich to kill.
CHILL WILLS It was a long time ago: 'Angela's Ashes' by Frank McCourt. It was a great story that was...
ISABEL GILLIES I tend to like to read history - recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just ...
JESSE VENTURA I hadn't seen 'Bride of Frankenstein' until high school or maybe even later than that. I...
MIKE MIGNOLA I learned a long time ago: Never bet against Annabeth.
RICK RIORDAN You don't have to drink this," I said, handing him the champagne. "But Sandy might like it".
"N...
JAY COWAN I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
M. WARD I've become the hunted. I'm enjoying that. It's better to be the hunted than the hunter.
ADAM PEATY I have an imagination because my life is so boring that my imagination lets me get off the reality o...
DAVE ATTELL I guess what I've learned is that there are no boundaries when it comes to imagination. It's...
CLIFF MARTINEZ I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction you're going to get bashed...
JOHN GRISHAM Side note: When I dressed up like Harley Quinn on TV a long time ago, everyone was like, 'Who is...
AJ LEE It was once people began taking my picture every time I left the house - because it's an easy fa...
ALEXA CHUNG I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow; if I fail, or if I succeed at least I did a...
WHITNEY HOUSTON If you were there behind every family's closed doors, everyone's a little wacko. Chances are...
MEAGHAN JETTE MARTIN A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago ...
ABRAHAM POLONSKY You know, now it's sinking in. It's taken me a long time to realize - and it is sinking in -...
ERIC CARLE People such as Hunter S. Thompson and the Beats were a huge influence on me, not just in what they w...
COREY TAYLOR I have a film I want to direct. Gena Rowlands was going to do it with me a long time ago. It's a...
WILLIAM HURT I'm very much over my hair. If it was up to me I'd have cut it a long time ago.
SAMUEL LARSEN In my opinion, Lenny Bruce was more of an influence on Zappa's satirical lyric's than anyone...
JIMMY CARL BLACK I think when I was young, let's call it high school, and even before that, I just loved comedy, ...
STEVE MARTIN I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than...
BARBARA BUSH The aspect of kind of living in your imagination and creating a more romantic vision of the world th...
ALDEN EHRENREICH I said to myself a long time ago that I didn't want to be that hanging-on-for-too-long, aging-ro...
ERIC AVERY I was fixated on Prince's 'Black Album' for a long time.
RIVERS CUOMO Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human ...
MAYA ANGELOU Some people write a thank you note for a gift, and it's three pages long, and some people write ...
BILL CALLAHAN I think Direct Cinema's trying to be insightful by looking at reality in a very close way while,...
JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER I'd learned a long time ago that one of the finest weapons in my arsenal was my ability to invade pe...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I was there in 1959. That was a long time ago.
EDDIE EINHORN I've always known there's more to life than just racing for a long time.
CASEY STONER I think it's a great document of John Stevens' originality. At that time he was already much...
EVAN PARKER Maybe it's because I was too much reality, but I'm not interested in seeing too much reality...
DENNIS FARINA Personally, I don't get that whole reality show thing. It was much smaller, and it's grown. ...
SIENNA GUILLORY I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should neve...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I come from a pretty tough background and I learned a long time ago not to be bothered.
BOB AINSWORTH I wander if there really is a brave man with a really good imagination? If hypocrisy was destructive...
SOURCE UNKNOWN I feel like things are weirder in our food production chain than I can even make up. I wouldn't ...
ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN Really, I learned a long time ago that in the National Football League, paper doesn't mean anyth...
MIKE MCCARTHY One of the biggest things I learned was that it's OK to be nervous and admit that you're hav...
SAMUEL LARSEN The proper bookmark for a Hunter Thompson book is a pair of brass knuckles.
JONATHAN HEATT I got 'Elektra: Assassin,' and that's where I learned that she was a tortured soul. She&...
ELODIE YUNG Well, I did Marlene 15 years ago and that's in the style. It's somehow similar and not simil...
MAXIMILIAN SCHELL I started track and field when I was 12 and didn't get to an Olympic Games until I was nearly 23...
SEBASTIAN COE I've worked in a factory. I was a garbage man. I worked in a post office. It's not that long...
DENZEL WASHINGTON I've realized a long time ago that I am not like most people, it was then I embraced my individualit...
N. S. COLE That was a long time ago, friend.
DOUG MCCLURE I had not seen it for a long time and was suddenly embarrassed to find that I was laughing more than...
JOHN CLEESE Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's ta...
WARREN RUDMAN I did an album a long time ago called 'Replicas,' which was entirely science-fiction driven,...
GARY NUMAN When I was knowingly misled but only learned that much later, that's really when I started to be...
SCOTT MCCLELLAN It's hard to do a reality show when there's so much crying and drama.
MADDIE ZIEGLER I only made two studio movies, that was a long time ago and obviously I removed myself. I think some...
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DUNCAN D. HUNTER I was motivated to improve the U.S. strategy of going back to the moon in 1985. That's a long ti...
BUZZ ALDRIN Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter.
ANDY ROONEY I read the 'Twilight' books before the movie and the whole craze happened. And then I loved ...
NINA DOBREV I have lots of favorite shows, but not reality! I don't like reality TV so much. I'm saddene...
BARBARA MANDRELL One of the things I've learned with doing 'xkcd' is that you sort of give people, 'H...
RANDALL MUNROE I'm more surprised than anyone that 'Spamalot's done so well. You can never predict what...
ERIC IDLE Whatever I did in 1960, half a century ago, I couldn't do that today and enter the field. The fi...
DOUGLAS KIRKLAND It's the same as Keith Richards. People still ask him the same questions they asked him 30 years...
SCOTT WEILAND Don't compare your career to anyone else's. It's tough when you're in a business tha...
DANIELLE BROOKS I've developed a theory that there's an inverse relationship between money and imagination. ...
ALAN MOORE It's time we learned the truth about stress. It's time we identified the thoughts that actua...
ANDREW J. BERNSTEIN I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it.
RICK SPRINGFIELD The musicals had a good, happy feeling, saying that the world is a better place. They say it's n...
SHIRLEY JONES I get to play a scorching lead guitar, and there's not much that's more fun than that.
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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