Hunter S. Thompson
Journalist, Author
"In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity."
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Fear And Loathing
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Hunter S. Thompson
Journalist, Author
"Buy the ticket, take the ride."
Hunter S. Thompson
Journalist, Author
"I'm a relatively respectable citizen. Multiple felon perhaps, but certainly not dangerous."
Hunter S. Thompson
Journalist, Author
"In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone."
Hunter S. Thompson
Journalist, Author
"Like most of the others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser."
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"It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat sh** and die."
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"There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge."
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"A man who has blown all his options can't afford the luxury of changing his ways. He has to capitalize on whatever he has left, and he can't afford to admit - no matter how often he's reminded of it - that every day of his life takes him farther and farther down a blind alley."
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"We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold."
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"Who said anything about slicing you up? ... I just wanted to carve a little Z on your forehead-- nothing serious."
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"We are all wired into a survival trip, now."
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"We can't stop here, this is bat country!"
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"The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. And I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon. Probably at the next gas station."
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"There was madness in any direction, at any hour. You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning."
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"But our trip was different. It was a classic affirmation of everything right and true and decent in the national character. It was a gross, physical salute to the fantastic possibilities of life in this country-but only for those with true grit. And we were chock full of that."
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"Still humping the American Dream"
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"All energy flows according to the whims of the great Magnet. What a fool I was to defy him."
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"Myths and legends die hard in America."
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"Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is."
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"I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my instincts were right."
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"My blood is too thick for California: I have never been able to properly explain myself in this climate."
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"Just sick enough to be totally confident"
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"Never create anything, it will be misinterpreted, it will chain you and follow you for the rest of your life."
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