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It drops us into a vigorous current, a constant state of misguided control. The doomed generation takes a final step forward, ignoring all the signs that state the obvious, and leaps into a trip no drug known to man

It drops us into a vigorous current, a constant state of misguided control. The doomed generation takes a final step forward, ignoring all the signs that state the obvious, and leaps into a trip no drug known to man could ever encompass.

Hunter S. Thompson
Men, Drug, Finals

I'm doing an introduction for one of Ralph's [Steadman] books. He's doing something called Gonzo, the Art I think he's stealing from me. I like Steadman and his coattail abilities. Ralph is better at business than I am. He has always managed to get free whiskey.

Hunter S. Thompson
Art, Book, Thinking
Source: www.fargonebooks.com

History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of "history" it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody understands at the time--and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.

Hunter S. Thompson
Thinking, Las Vegas, Long
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream”, p.120, Pan Macmillan

Old God sure was in a good mood when he made this place.

Hunter S. Thompson
Good Mood, Mood, Made
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Rum Diary: Film Tie-in Edition”, p.135, A&C Black

A little bit of this town goes a very long way.

Hunter S. Thompson
Las Vegas, Long, Littles
Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.189, Vintage

The whole framework of the presidency is getting out of hand. It's come to the point where you almost can't run unless you can cause people to salivate and whip each other with big sticks. You almost have to be a rock star to get the kind of fever you need to survive in American politics.

Hunter S. Thompson
Running, Stars, Rocks
"Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72". Book by Hunter S. Thompson, 1973.

I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a certain nostalgia for it when I see a big white racing yacht heeled over at cruising speed on the ocean, and I can still tie a mean bowline knot on just about anything in less than 10 seconds.

Hunter S. Thompson
Ocean, Mean, Sea
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.218, Pan Macmillan

By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.

Hunter S. Thompson
Death, Should Have, Nine
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.321, Pan Macmillan

Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn't anticipate.

Hunter S. Thompson
Democracy, Anticipate
Hunter S. Thompson, Beef Torrey, Kevin Simonson (2008). “Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson”, p.131, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.

Hunter S. Thompson
Ideas, Addiction, Fear And Loathing
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Better Than Sex: Confessions of a Political Junkie”, p.1, Ballantine Books

Why are we seeing George Bush on TV every two hours for nine or ten days at a time, like some kind of mutated Mr. Rogers clone? Something is dangerously wrong in any country where a monumentally-failed backwoods politician can scare our national TV networks so totally that they will give him anything he wants.

Hunter S. Thompson
Country, Two, Giving
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.283, Pan Macmillan

Few people understand the psychology of dealing with a highway traffic cop.

Hunter S. Thompson
Vegas, People, Psychology
Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.90, Vintage

Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

Hunter S. Thompson
Dream, Heart, Journey
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

The waitress had the appearance of a very old hooker who had finally found her place in life

Hunter S. Thompson
Fear, Appearance, Waitress
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.550, Pan Macmillan

[Polo Is My Life] is what's called a sex book - you know, sex, drugs and rock and roll. It's about the manager of a sex theater who's forced to leave and flee to the mountains. He falls in love and gets in even more trouble than he was in the sex theater in San Francisco. Most of my stories are tales of anguish, stress and grief.

Hunter S. Thompson
Falling In Love, Sex, Stress
Source: www.fargonebooks.com

There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother's milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it, or there won't be any winners.

Hunter S. Thompson
Football, Mother, Gambling

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

Hunter S. Thompson
Ocean, Sea, Law
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

["Where the Buffalo Roam" is] horrible pile of crap. [Bill] Murray did a good job. But it was a bad script. You can't beat a bad script. It was just a horrible movie. A cartoon. But Bill Murray did a good job. We actually wrote and shot several different endings and beginnings and they all got cut out in the end. It was disappointing.

Hunter S. Thompson
Jobs, Cutting, Cartoon
Source: www.fargonebooks.com

I noticed at once that Depp had a dangerously energized intelligence . . . He was a suave little brute, but he had a wicked sense of humor and a rare instinct for escalation.

Hunter S. Thompson
Wicked, Suave, Littles

Who knows? If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix & a clean well lighted place full of sunshine and bromides and fast cars where almost everybody seems vaguely happy, except those who know in their hearts what is missing... And being driven slowly and quietly into the kind of terminal craziness that comes with finally understanding that the one thing you want is not there. Missing. Back-ordered. No tengo. Vaya con dios. Grow up! Small is better. Take what you can get.

Hunter S. Thompson
Growing Up, Heart, Sunshine
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

Too weird to live, and too rare to die.

Hunter S. Thompson
Tattoo, Las Vegas, Life And Death
"Fictional character: Raoul Duke". "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", www.imdb.com. May 19, 1998.

Any combination of a 250-pound Mexican and LSD-25 is a potentially terminal menace for anything it can reach

Hunter S. Thompson
Mexican, Pounds, Lsd
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.507, Simon and Schuster

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

Hunter S. Thompson
Art, Literature, Politics
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

Though I was careful never to mention it, I began to see a new dimension in everything that happened.

Hunter S. Thompson
Dimensions, Careful, Happened
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Rum Diary: A Novel”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

If we get chased out of Iraq with our tail between our legs, that will be the fifth consecutive Third-world country with no hint of a Navy or an Air Force to have whipped us in the past 40 years.

Hunter S. Thompson
Country, Past, Air
"Am I Turning Into a Pervert?", November 18, 2003.

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