Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run, but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant.


Hunter S. Thompson

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run… but no explanation, no mix of words or music...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
It seems like a lifetime, or at least a Main Era — the kind of peak that never comes again. San Fr...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or ...
DAVID ANTIN
Or maybe they just accept that it's wrong in God's eyes, although not in their own, and they'll worr...
CRAIG GROESCHEL
Only children simply accept the fact that their parents have the right to make choices for them. Eve...
THE MIRROR OF MAYBE
Zane sighed. Jovan and Mother were just the same. “Maybe later” meant no.
C.J. MILBRANDT
No matter what you're doing. I feel that everyone has something different that moves them or tha...
EDY GANEM
Memories like that help. We all have something like that we can pull upon. Maybe not in a match-play...
JUSTIN LEONARD
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to h...
CHARLES IVES
Do I think human beings are meant to be in 40-year-long monogamous, faithful, relationships? No, No,...
HUGH GRANT
The truth is that there is no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it's your thoughts that cre...
WAYNE DYER
You were not in control You had no visibility: maybe there was a car in front of you, maybe not.
ALAIN PROST
They're meant for inland water, calm water. Maybe moving water but not a strong current. As long as ...
BILL MERRICK
There are things
that make no sense,
that seem unreal,
that can’t be grasped
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH
I've learned the lesson that when you're in the middle of something that seems overwhelming,...
LEE ANN WOMACK
There may be a long list of things to do, but really, there is just one thing on the list at any tim...
ZOKETSU NORMAN FISCHER
Transcending the world does not mean to withdraw from the world, to no longer take action, or to sto...
ECKHART TOLLE
If much in the world were mystery the limits of that world were not, for it was without measure or b...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
It can be a great way to find something that might not be readily available in your area. Maybe you'...
SUSAN GRANT
I take pride in it and I do think about it. It's hard to put in words, but [watching black hockey pl...
JAROME IGINLA
You can't sit down and write 300 compositions in a three-month period and think that you're ...
JOHN ZORN
I feel that everyone has something different that moves them or that appeals to them. Maybe somethin...
EDY GANEM
You can say battle or war or whatever, but in the end, it's music. It's not really violent i...
ERIC SAN
Maybe it was meant to be. We've been in these kinds of games all year. It's obviously (not) the same...
DAN JUDD
Remember that the truth is in the details. No matter how you see the world or what style it imposes ...
STEPHEN KING
People of my generation who became photographers in the late fifties, early sixties, there were no r...
DUANE MICHALS
To create a comedy major, I ended up starting a comedy night in the basement of my dorm, and I promo...
EUGENE MIRMAN
We carry about us the burden of what thousands of people have said and the memories of all our misfo...
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI
We are hoping that there would be somebody out there that would maybe recognize the clothing or some...
BARBARA JONES
It brings a sense of peace, it brings a sense of hope and it brings also the fact that your child me...
ADREINNE YOUNG
Hope makes you stronger, because it brings with it a sense of reason. Not a reason of how or why the...
CECELIA AHERN
Probably one reason you do not have to be a lawyer is that when the Constitution was written, there ...
ALLAN WOLF
Hope and purpose in this world is living as best as you can and maybe having life that gives back. B...
NICK VUJICIC
A big part of teaching is being emphatic. Maybe I'm right or wrong, but part of my approach was ...
BOBBY KNIGHT
I was a very lonely child and it's funy but the first word that comes to my head is "starved". I fel...
CAROL LEE
Sometimes maybe you need an experience. The experience can be a person or it can be a drug. The expe...
MELVIN BURGESS
I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
When someone recognises you or wants an interview, you think, 'You know, maybe I've done som...
ANA IVANOVIC
For starters, that’s a rather simple principle of Time Travel right there – and according to the...
CHRISTINA ENGELA
I think it's foolish to think that if you've done something for so long, you can kind of del...
ANDY RODDICK
And I was crying for gravity. It had sent me down the stairs, and I'd thought that meant something, ...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN
Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th...
DEYTH BANGER
The roles that have come into my life have taught me - and in that time period maybe I didn't ev...
EMMA STONE
The Northwestern Carpathians, in which I was raised, were a hard place, as unforgiving as the people...
ANDREW KRIVAK
You are not an option, a choice or a soft place to land after a long battle. You were meant to be th...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Maybe it wasn't meant for me to stand on my feet; maybe I'm one of those who were born with wings an...
NOUF ALFADL
It's kind of like what I was saying. When we went in to make the record, we would start with a riff ...
BOBBY BURNS
I don't believe being gay is something you can change, no more than you can change the color of ...
PATRICIA POLACCO
There were audiences for the first time in living memory. People were discussing modern music. Maybe...
PHILIP GLASS
If you're at school and you're not that bright or good-looking or popular or whatever, and one day y...
DAVID NICHOLLS
Feelings such as loneliness, longing or love are sometimes hard to put into words; maybe that's ...
AGNES OBEL
Maybe time would not feel as heavy if I didn't have this guilt - the guilt of knowing the truth and ...
VERONICA ROTH
Anybody can be a runner... We were meant to move. We were meant to run. It's the easiest sport.
BILL RODGERS
So it was in Botswana, almost everywhere; ties of kinship, no matter how attenuated by distance or t...
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH
Nothing can save something that is not meant to be, no matter how hard you try.
BIPASHA BASU
Love always won in the end. No matter how it happened, no matter what it took, no matter what it mea...
B.J. NOVAK
I dieted all the time in the Sixties, but we had no idea what dieting meant - we thought it meant no...
BRITT EKLAND
But maybe it's up in the hills under the leaves or in a ditch somewhere. Maybe it's never fo...
PAUL ENGLE
It's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music.
DWIGHT YOAKAM
Maybe happiness didn't have to be about the big, sweeping circumstances, about having everything in ...
ANN BRASHARES
There's a subtle but critical difference between something that is long term and something in the ca...
DAVID ALLEN
He smiled, and suddenly she knew that his words were true. Everything would be all right. Maybe not ...
JULIA QUINN
I always thought of it like you said, that all the strings inside him broke. But there are a thousan...
JOHN GREEN
There is no greater glory than to die for love.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
I'm sure that no one meant it to be that way. We just wanted to get the word out that whoever dumped...
MARIA CACCAVIELLO
I’d said it before and meant it: Alive or undead, the love of my life was a badass.
RICHELLE MEAD
No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live.
ANDREA HAIRSTON
People such as Hunter S. Thompson and the Beats were a huge influence on me, not just in what they w...
COREY TAYLOR
Often, things happen in clusters that have no explanation except a chance occurrence. People like to...
DR. KEN GERSHMAN
I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construct...
SAM RAIMI
If therefore you shall be remembered for what you did with what you had more than what you had, use ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
A common measure of poverty is how much money you have in relation to other people - that is useful ...
WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN
Imagine, for example, birds. When they look out at the world, they have a sense that they are alive....
ANTONIO DAMASIO
And I went through a lot of detours and I took a lot of roads and things so yes, that's all ther...
KIM NOVAK
The thing that I think is cool about pop music in general is just that it's not like rock music or c...
FORREST KLINE
I think that most of my romance comes out in my music. And if you look at my track record of three e...
DAVID FOSTER
I did plays in college, and I have half of a play. But I'm kind of stuck. I keep revisiting it s...
AIMEE BENDER
There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is ...
FRED W. FITCH
Most of the stuff that people look at on Quora today was not written in the last month. You write so...
ADAM D'ANGELO
If we were in the Kingdome or something, maybe that would be special,
ICHIRO SUZUKI
If we were in the Kingdome or something, maybe that would be special.
ICHIRO SUZUKI
There is no paycheck that can equal the feeling of contentment that comes from being the person you ...
OPRAH WINFREY
What no one tells you - or maybe they did tell me, and I chose not to listen - is that there's r...
EMILY WEISS
Maybe it's naive to say, but it almost seems like, in the past, people tried to sell you somethi...
TRACY CHAPMAN
You're not supposed to look perfect while you're making babies. Making babies is the perfect...
DREW BARRYMORE
Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there's a tomorrow. Maybe for you there's one thousand t...
LAUREN OLIVER
Quite simply, if you're feeling anxious, angry, a sense of shame, whatever it is, breathe in and...
TARA BRACH
Name the fears that are holding you back. It's the equivalent of flooding the boogeyman with light.
GINA GREENLEE
Whatever your station or position in life, there is always room for improvement, enhancement, and pe...
PEDRO OKORO
I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an o...
CHARISMA CARPENTER
But maybe I am. Maybe that’s exactly what I am. Maybe all I wanted was for Toby to hear the wolves...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT
We can believe that we know where the world should go. But unless we're in touch with our custom...
STEVE BALLMER
I'm terrified of the thought of time passing (or whatever is meant by that phrase) whether I 'do' an...
PHILIP LARKIN
I think in L.A., in terms of the music scene, it's a really strange place. It's really hard ...
ALEKSA PALLADINO
Past can hurt but either you learn from it or run from it.Your past mistakes are meant to guide you,...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA

More Hunter S. Thompson

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot - and it's only a question of time before all t...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Some may never live, but the crazy never die.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
'Crazy' is a term of art; 'Insane' is a term of law. Remember that, and you will sav...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Nixon was a crook, of course, but he was also a rabid football fan - and he knew the game, which sti...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Duke is an ugly word in Kentucky. Nothing in the world compares to the joy of beating those hateful ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I've already become a mastodon in print - I don't see a consciousness for my kind of journal...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
There might be some serious fun in politics.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I don't think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It's lonely out ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer... in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy w...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
The only thing wrong with the NBA - or any other professional sport, for that matter - is a wild epi...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly unde...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother's milk of gambling...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
The writer must be a participant in the scene... like a film director who writes his own scripts, do...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Justice is expensive in America. There are no Free Passes... You might want to remember this, the ne...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
The Raiders of old were vicious and crazy and cruel. Hanging around their locker room was like hangi...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I guess that's one of the things about growing up in the fifties - it never occurred to me that ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to fe...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
In my heart, I am always a Raider.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Quacks are a part of our culture, and we all fall prey to them. Who among us can say, for sure, that...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
The Hell's Angels try not to do anything halfway, and anyone who deals in extremes is bound to c...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
By disgracing and degrading the presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a d...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Nixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Without gambling, I would not exist.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
One thing I have learned in my painful career as a gambler is that bragging when you get lucky and w...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
The next MVP of the Super Bowl is just as likely to have been a full-time grocery store bagger last ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Yes sir, I am a tortured man for all seasons, as they say, and I have powerful friends in high place...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I was 22 when JFK was murdered, and I will never recover from it... Never.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
All gamblers lose regularly, but they rarely discuss it in public. Losing is bad for the image, dude...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Politics is the art of controlling your environment.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the i...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
As long as I'm learning something, I figure I'm OK - it's a decent day.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Buy the ticket, take the ride.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance o...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I can't think in terms of journalism without thinking in terms of political ends. Unless there&#...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, t...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - wo...
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.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
There is no fool like a careless gambler who starts taking victory for granted.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked u...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and w...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Work was impossible. The geeks had broken my spirit. They had done too many things wrong. It was nev...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I am a writer, a professional journalist with serious credentials in Crime, Craziness, and Politics....
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
One of the few ways I can almost be certain I'll understand something is by sitting down and writing...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
National Observer became my road gig out of San Francisco. I was too much for them. I would wander i...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Gonzo journalism is a style of reporting based on William Faulkner's idea that the best fiction is f...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
“ ‘As things stand now, I am going to be a writer. I’m not sure that I’m ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for ...
HUNTER S THOMPSON
Revenge is one of the few things in politics that never gets lost in the mail or written off for a d...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Old elephants limp off to the hills to die; old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
America is just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
The polls...indicate that Nixon will get a comfortable majority of the youth vote. And that he might...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to b...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of “histor...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I have tonight begun reading a stupid, shitty book by Kerouac called HUNTER S. THOMPSON If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Maybe there is no Heaven. Or maybe this is all pure gibberish—a product of the demented imaginatio...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
The tragedy of all this is that George McGovern, for all his mistakes and his imprecise talk about n...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
This is the fast lane, folks...and some of us like it here.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspi...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all som...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have en...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people -- including me -- woul...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Ten years before --- even five --- I had been the same way. I wanted it all and I wanted it fast and...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
It started when I left Vegas that first time, skipping the hotel bill, driving off in that red conve...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs -- unlike...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
The Ping Eye 2 Beryllium One iron is my favorite club. All golfers fear and hate the One HUNTER S. THOMPSON There is a progression of understanding vis-?-vis pro football that varies drastically with the fact...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I have thought this way several times in my life but only when circumstances have led me to a bad pa...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
But I am in the gambling business, for good or ill; it is the business I have chosen, and the only g...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
But then just days after it came out, I began to get calls and letters from all over the country say...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusi...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he d...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy ...
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.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he d...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I have always hated bowling, and I don't mind admitting it.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I am a professional sportswriter, among other things, and I take the games seriously. It is only one...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I wasn't trying to be an outlaw writer. I never heard of that term; somebody else made it up. Bu...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Marathon running, like golf, is a game for players, not winners. That is why Callaway sells golf clu...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I am an Addictive Personality, they say, a natural slave to passion - and many Doctors have warned m...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I am more than just a serious basketball fan. I am a life-long addict. I was addicted from birth, in...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Nixon was a bad loser. He hated losing worse than death, and that is why I enjoyed him. We were both...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it'...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I have always loved blizzards, if only because of the driving experience - which is definitely an ac...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way....
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of th...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
The best thing about the Kentucky Derby is that it is only two minutes long. It is the quickest even...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked fo...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen sudd...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shall...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Rush Limbaugh is a lame professional swine, and he makes a good living at it. He is like a hired gee...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
If Sunday is the Lord's day, then Saturday belongs to the Devil. It is the only night of the wee...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
March is a month without mercy for rabid basketball fans. There is no such thing as a 'gentleman...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieve...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital a...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Remember this, folks - I am a Hillbilly, and I don't always Bet the same way I talk. Good advice...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today's winners are tomorrow's blinkin...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
The behavior of the crowd at Churchill Downs is like 100,000 vicious Hyenas going berserk all at onc...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is ri...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your hea...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I think I'm one of the most patriotic people that I've ever encountered in America. I consid...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Richard Nixon was an evil man - evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
If there is, in fact, a Heaven and a Hell, all we know for sure is that Hell will be a viciously ove...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn't anticipate.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so cor...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
We can't stop here, this is bat country!
HUNTER S. 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