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Sex, drugs, and insanity have always worked for me, but I wouldn't recommend them for everyone.

Sex, drugs, and insanity have always worked for me, but I wouldn't recommend them for everyone.

Hunter S. Thompson
Sex, Hippie, Insanity

As I see it then, the formula runs something like this: a man must choose a path which will let his ABILITIES function at maximum efficiency toward the gratification of his DESIRES.

Hunter S. Thompson
Running, Men, Desire
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967”, p.118, Ballantine Books

The Jews don't beleive in Jesus! Why should I?! WHOOOEEEE!!

Hunter S. Thompson
Jesus, Religion, Should

Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.

Hunter S. Thompson
Football, Cutting, Personality
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward S”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

We must ride this strange torpedo out until the end.

Hunter S. Thompson
Life, Strange, Ends

This is the way life goes in Big Sur. Waiting for the mail, watching the sea-lions in the surf or the freighters on the horizon, sitting in the tubs at Hot Springs, once in a while a bit of drink - and, most of the time, working at what ever it is that you came here to work on, whether it be painting, writing, gardening or the simple art of living your own life.

Hunter S. Thompson
Art, Spring, Writing
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967”, p.276, Ballantine Books

"Drugs" are not necessarily narcotics. The narcotic is one type of drug and coffee is a drug... booze is a drug... many drugs.... They're all around us.

Hunter S. Thompson
Coffee, Drug, Type
Source: www.rollingstone.com

North Vegas is where you go if you're a hooker turning forty and the syndicate men on the strip decide you're no longer much good for business out there with the high rollers.

Hunter S. Thompson
Men, Vegas, Syndicate
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.543, Simon and Schuster

Smart people understand that there is no such thing as paranoia. It is just another mask for ignorance.

Hunter S. Thompson
Ignorance, Paranoia, Mask
"Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F".

How long can we maintain? I wonder. How long before one of us starts raving and jabbering at this boy? What will he think then? This same lonely desert was the last known home of the Manson family. Will he make that grim connection.

Hunter S. Thompson
Lonely, Home, Boys
Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.9, Vintage

Just the other day the AP wire had a story about a man from Arkansas who entered some kind of contest and won a two-week vacation--all expenses paid--wherever he wanted to go. Any place in the world: Mongolia, Easter Island, the Turkish Riviera . . . but his choice was Salt Lake City, and that's where he went. Is this man a registered voter? Has he come to grips with the issues? Has he bathed in the blood of the lamb?

Hunter S. Thompson
Easter, Men, Vacation
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72”, p.168, Simon and Schuster

I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my instincts were right.

Hunter S. Thompson
Thinking, Long, Fear And Loathing
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Rum Diary: A Novel”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and - in spite of True Romance magazines - we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way.

Hunter S. Thompson
Romance, Looks, Magazines
Hunter S. Thompson (2014). “The Proud Highway: Rejacketed”, p.215, Bloomsbury Publishing

He could shake your hand and stab you in the back at the same time.

Hunter S. Thompson
Time, Hands, Shakes
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.237, Pan Macmillan

One of the few ways I can almost be certain I'll understand something is by sitting down and writing about it. Because by forcing yourself to write about it and putting it down in words, you can't avoid having your say on the subject. You might be wrong, but you have to think about it very intensely to write about it.

Hunter S. Thompson
Writing, Thinking, Sitting Down

The massive, frustrated energies of a mainly young, disillusioned electorate that has long since abandoned the idea that we all have a duty to vote. This is like being told you have a duty to buy a new car, but you have to choose immediately between a Ford and a Chevy.

Hunter S. Thompson
Ideas, Long, Car
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

On my tombstone they will carve, "IT NEVER GOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME.

Hunter S. Thompson
Tombstone, Motorcycle, Enough
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer... in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my friend.

Hunter S. Thompson
Enemy, My Friends, Bits
Hunter S. Thompson, Beef Torrey, Kevin Simonson (2008). “Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson”, p.148, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body.

Hunter S. Thompson
Travel, Adventure, Journey
"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

The streets of every city in America are filled with men who would pay all the money they could lay their hands on to be transformed, even for a day, into hairy, hard-fisted brutes who walk all over cops, extort drinks from terrified bartenders and roar out of town on big motorcycles after raping the banker's daughter.

Hunter S. Thompson
Daughter, Men, Hands
"Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs". Book by Hunter S. Thompson, 1966.

Journalism is "a low trade and a habit worse than heroin, a strange seedy world of misfits and drunkards and failures.

Hunter S. Thompson
World, Strange, Journalism
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

John F. Kennedy, who seized the White House from Richard Nixon in a frenzied campaign that turned a whole generation of young Americans into political junkies, got shot in the head for his efforts, murdered in Dallas by some hapless geek named Oswald who worked for either Castro, the mob, Jimmy Hoffa, the CIA, his dominatrix landlady or the odious, degenerate FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover. The list is long and crazy - maybe Marilyn Monroe's first husband fired those shots from the grassy knoll. Who knows?

Hunter S. Thompson
Husband, Crazy, White

The greatest mania of all is passion: and I am a natural slave to passion: the balance between my brain and my soul and my body is as wild and delicate as the skin of a Ming vase.

Hunter S. Thompson
Passion, Soul, Brain
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.351, Simon and Schuster

With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.

Hunter S. Thompson
Epic, Race, Modern Journalism
"Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72". Book by Hunter S. Thompson, 1973.

I still feel needles in my back when I think about all the horrible disasters that would have befallen me if I had permanently moved to San Francisco and rented a big house, joined the company dole, become national-affairs editor for some upstart magazine—that was the plan around 1967. But that would have meant going to work on a regular basis, like nine to five, with an office—I had to pull out.

Hunter S. Thompson
Thinking, Editors, San Francisco
Hunter S. Thompson, Beef Torrey, Kevin Simonson (2008). “Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson”, p.149, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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