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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.

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

Hunter S. Thompson
Men, Addiction, Fear And Loathing
"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream".

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.

Hunter S. Thompson
Fate, Differences, Generations
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.589, Simon and Schuster

The first paragraph. The last paragraph. That's where the story is going and how it's going to end. Or else you'll go off in a hundred different directions.

Hunter S. Thompson
Stories, Lasts, Firsts
Hunter S. Thompson, Beef Torrey, Kevin Simonson (2008). “Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson”, p.155, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Bush is a natural-born loser with a filthy-rich daddy who pimped his son out to rich oil-mongers. He hates music, football and sex, in no particular order, and he is no fun at all.

Hunter S. Thompson
Football, Sex, Fun
Hunter S. Thompson, Jann Wenner (2011). “Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson”, p.488, Simon and Schuster

To give advice to a man who asks what to do with his life implies something very close to egomania. To presume to point a man to the right and ultimate goal - to point with a trembling finger in the RIGHT direction is something only a fool would take upon himself.

Hunter S. Thompson
Men, Giving, Goal
FaceBook post by Hunter S. Thompson from Sep 06, 2014

At age 22 I set what I insist is an all-time record for distance hitchhiking in Bermuda shorts: 3,700 miles in three weeks.

Hunter S. Thompson
Distance, Age, Three
Hunter S. Thompson (2003). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.592, Simon and Schuster

All gamblers lose regularly, but they rarely discuss it in public. Losing is bad for the image, dude. Nobody buys Hot Tips from Losers. Remember that.

Hunter S. Thompson
Hot, Losing, Loser
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.227, Pan Macmillan

One of them is knowing the difference between Morality and Wisdom. Morality is temporary, Wisdom is permanent… Ho ho. Take that one to bed with you tonight.

Hunter S. Thompson
Differences, Knowing, Bed
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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
Past, Cells, Years
1973 'Fear and Loathing at the Superbowl', in Rolling Stone, 15 Feb.

It's hard to say what I meant by "as we know it." I'm not about to go up on a mountain on new year's eve and wait for the lightening to strike.

Hunter S. Thompson
New Year, Years, Waiting
Source: www.fargonebooks.com

Any kind of political campaign that taps the kind of energy that nothing else can reach would generate a tremendous high for everybody involved in it.

Hunter S. Thompson
Political, Energy, Campaigns
Source: www.rollingstone.com

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
Eye, Hunting, Vegas
Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.55, Vintage

I went to the Democratic Convention as a journalist, and returned a cold-blooded revolutionary.

Hunter S. Thompson
Cold, Revolutionary, Conventions
"Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist" by Douglas Brinkley, (p. xvi), 2000.

Nixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear and despise.

Hunter S. Thompson
Country, Character, Dark
Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 (1973)

There is nothing worse than a man in the throws of an ether bender.

Hunter S. Thompson
Men

Platitudes are safe, because they're easy to wink at, but truth is something else again.

Hunter S. Thompson
Safe, Truth Is, Easy
Hunter S. Thompson (2014). “The Proud Highway: Rejacketed”, p.184, Bloomsbury Publishing

In San Francisco - life goes on. Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain. The sound of music floats down a dark street. A young girl looks out a window and wishes she were married. A drunk sleeps under a bridge. It is tomorrow.

Hunter S. Thompson
Beautiful, Girl, Dream

Reality itself is too twisted.

Hunter S. Thompson
Reality, Twisted
Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.47, Vintage

I never claimed to be anything more than a nice guy and an athlete.

Hunter S. Thompson
Nice, Athlete, Guy

Las Vegas is a society of armed masturbators/gambling is the kicker here/sex is extra/weird trip for high rollers ... house-whores for winners, hand jobs for the bad luck crowd.

Hunter S. Thompson
Jobs, Sex, Las Vegas
Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.41, Vintage

The room was very quiet. I walked over to the TV set and turned it on to a dead channel-white noise at maximum decibels, a fine sound for sleeping, a powerful continuous hiss to drown out everything strange.

Hunter S. Thompson
Powerful, Sleep, White
Hunter S. Thompson “Hunter S. Thompson's Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas”, IDW Publishing

Myths and legends die hard in America.

Hunter S. Thompson
America, Fear And Loathing, Hunters
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.406, Simon and Schuster

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.

Hunter S. Thompson
Country, Character, Fear And Loathing
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.535, Simon and Schuster

Most people who deal in words don't have much faith in them and I am no exception.

Hunter S. Thompson
People, Hunters, Gonzo
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Rum Diary: Film Tie-in Edition”, p.57, A&C Black

Quacks are a part of our culture, and we all fall prey to them. Who among us can say, for sure, that even our own personal physicians are honest and competent?

Hunter S. Thompson
Fall, Physicians, Culture
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.85, Pan Macmillan

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