Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

Hunter S. Thompson (33)

Birth:	18th July, 1937
Death:	20th February, 2005
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Journalist

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• This is the fast lane, folks…and some of us like it here.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Topics in Humor

• If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Topics in Truth

• A word to the wise is infuriating.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Topics in Humor, Wisdom

• Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Safety

• I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Topics in Truth
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  It was one of those fine little love stories that can make you smile in your sleep at night.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Topics in Love, Smile

  Tags in Little, Stories
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  Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.

   

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Seriously
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  Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Probably
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  I’d hate to advocate drugs, alcohol or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Insanity, Drug

• The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There’s also a negative side.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Topics in Uncategorized

• You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.

  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

• There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

  Hunter S. Thompson

• The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.

  Hunter S. Thompson

• The trouble with Nixon is that he’s a serious politics junkie. He’s totally hooked and like any other junkie, he’s a bummer to have around, especially as President.

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• The person who doesn’t scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

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• The Edge… there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

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• That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn’t entirely conquer – he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.

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• Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

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• Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.

  Hunter S. Thompson