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Journalism, to me, is just another drug - a free ride to scenes I'd probably miss if I stayed straight.

Journalism, to me, is just another drug - a free ride to scenes I'd probably miss if I stayed straight.

Hunter S. Thompson
Missing, Drug, Journalism
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.223, Simon and Schuster

Jesus man! You don't look for acid! Acid finds you when it thinks you're ready.

Hunter S. Thompson
Jesus, Men, Thinking
"Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72". Book by Hunter S. Thompson, 1973.

I measure my life in pages. If I have pages at dawn, it's been a good night.

Hunter S. Thompson
Good Night, Dawn, Pages
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.275, Pan Macmillan

As a senior, you may be wondering what you want to do with your life after high school. College? Travel? Get a job? Options are limitless, but it will be good to have a plan. Use the high school senior quotes about life below to come up with ideas on what you want to make of yourself after high school. The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

Hunter S. Thompson
Senior, Morning, Jobs

Old elephants limp off to the hills to die; old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves to death with huge cars.

Hunter S. Thompson
Death, Elephants, Car
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.535, Simon and Schuster

I think I'm going to have to get a flying license very soon, and maybe one of those Lear jets. It beats motorcycles all to hell.

Hunter S. Thompson
Thinking, Flying, Motorcycle
Source: www.rollingstone.com

A man never stoops so low as when he rises to the challenge of politics.

Hunter S. Thompson
Men, Challenges, Lows

["Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas"] is a very hard book to translate to film because there's so much interior monologue. The what if factor. I tried to write it cinematically and let the dialogue carry it but I forgot about the interior monologue. It's kind of hard to show what's going on in the head. I think we should do it like a documentary.

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

Sportswriters are a rude and brainless subculture of fascist drunks, a gang of vicious monkeys jerking off in a zoo cage... more disgusting by nature than maggots oozing out the carcass of a dead animal.

Hunter S. Thompson
Zoos, Animal, Rude

You can't miss what you never had.

Hunter S. Thompson
Missing
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.308, Simon and Schuster

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

Hunter S. Thompson
Law, Perspective, Style
Letter, The Champion, July 1990

We came out here to find the American Dream, and now that we're right in the vortex you want to quit ... You must realize that we've found the main nerve." I know," he said. "That's what gives me the Fear.

Hunter S. Thompson
Dream, Giving, Nerves
Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.48, Vintage

Relax - This won't hurt.

Hunter S. Thompson
Hurt, Relax

There's also a down side.

Hunter S. Thompson
Sides

The thing that was important to me about Hemingway at the time was that Hemingway taught me that you could be a writer and get away with it.

Hunter S. Thompson
Get Away
"Ancient Gonzo Wisdom".

I think George Washington owned guns. I've never seen any contradiction with that.

Hunter S. Thompson
Thinking, Gun, Contradiction
Source: www.fargonebooks.com

There is no way to understand the public reaction to the sight of a Freak smashing a coconut with a hammer on the hood of a white Cadillac in a Safeway parking lot unless you actually do it, and I tell you it's tense.

Hunter S. Thompson
Food, Sight, White
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, Simon and Schuster

Fishing from a boat seems like dilettante bullshit - like hunting wild boar with a can of spray paint from the safety of a pick-up truck

Hunter S. Thompson
Hunting, Rivers, Lakes

Children are like TV sets. When they start acting weird, whack them across the head with a big rubber basketball shoe.

Hunter S. Thompson
Basketball, Children, Shoes
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

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
Running, Men, America

Music has always been a matter of energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel.

Hunter S. Thompson
Inspiration, Mean, People
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.342, Simon and Schuster

Remember this, folks - I am a Hillbilly, and I don't always Bet the same way I talk. Good advice is one thing, but smart gambling is quite another.

Hunter S. Thompson
Smart, Gambling, Advice
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.62, Pan Macmillan

I am an Addictive Personality, they say, a natural slave to passion - and many Doctors have warned me against it. I am a High-risk Patient.

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

He wandered into the Newsroom and asked for a job the same way he’d walk into a barbershop and ask for a haircut, and with no more idea of being turned down.

Hunter S. Thompson
Jobs, Ideas, Way
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Rum Diary: A Novel”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

All energy flows according to the whims of the great Magnet. What a fool I was to defy him.

Hunter S. Thompson
Fear And Loathing, Energy, Flow
Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.95, Vintage

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