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Never mind the track. The track is for punks. We are Road People. We are Cafe Racers.

Never mind the track. The track is for punks. We are Road People. We are Cafe Racers.

Hunter S. Thompson
People, Track, Mind
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

People think I watch TV too much, but they are wrong. There is a huge difference between merely "watching" TV and learning to respond aggressively to it. The difference, for most people, is the difference between the living and dying of their own brains.

Hunter S. Thompson
Thinking, Differences, People
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Better Than Sex”, p.52, Pan Macmillan

Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.

Hunter S. Thompson
Writing, Artist, Reality

I harbor a secret urge to whack a salesman in the face, crack his teeth and put red bumps around his eyes.

Hunter S. Thompson
Eye, Secret, Teeth
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Rum Diary: A Novel”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it's because I'm Smart... But that is a lie: The real reason is because I'm an incurable Gambling addict.

Hunter S. Thompson
Real, Smart, Lying
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.15, Pan Macmillan

Still humping the American Dream

Hunter S. Thompson
Dream, Vegas, Fear And Loathing
Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.56, Vintage

I think you either have to have a very strong decisive person at the top or else a really brilliant staff command.

Hunter S. Thompson
Strong, Thinking, Brilliant
Source: www.rollingstone.com

They're gonna make it look like suicide. I know how those bastards think.

Hunter S. Thompson
Suicide, Thinking, Looks

I guess I'm just courtly until people get in my way. You'll find most Southerners are like that.

Hunter S. Thompson
People, Way, My Way
Source: www.fargonebooks.com

I was once arrested with [Allen] Ginsburg. He was a big help to me. He was one of the few people who read unknown writer's work. Maybe he was just hustling me. He liked to flirt, Allen. They called him a monster but he was only falling in love.

Hunter S. Thompson
Falling In Love, Flirting, People
Source: www.fargonebooks.com

With a bit of luck, his life was ruined forever. Always thinking that just behind some narrow door in all of his favorite bars, men in red woolen shirts are getting incredible kicks from things he’ll never know.

Hunter S. Thompson
Men, Thinking, Vegas
"Fictional character: Raoul Duke". www.imdb.com.

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory... And why not? Victory is good for you, and don't let anybody tell you different.

Hunter S. Thompson
Sports, Mean, America
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.293, Pan Macmillan

If you have half a story and you don't know the rest, you use what you have to pry the rest out of someone.

Hunter S. Thompson
Stories, Use, Half
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72”, p.406, Simon and Schuster

Cover a war in a place where you can't drink beer or talk to a woman? Hell no!

Hunter S. Thompson
War, Beer, Hell

As hideous and dumb as it sounds, I wouldn't be at all surprised by an invasion of Iraq on September II. I'll take a long shot bet on that.

Hunter S. Thompson
Iraq, Dumb, Sound
"Hunter S. Thompson: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations".

That's where Time magazine lives ... way out there on the puzzled, masturbating edge, peering through the keyhole and selling what they see to the big wide world of chamber of commerce voyeurs who support the public prints.

Hunter S. Thompson
Support, Magazines, World
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

Good peo­ple drink good beer. Just look around any pub­lic bar­room and you will see: Bad peo­ple drink bad beer. Think about it.

Hunter S. Thompson
Beer, Thinking, Bars

There is probably some long-standing "rule" among writers, journalists, and other word-mongers that says: "When you start stealing from your own work you're in bad trouble." And it may be true.

Hunter S. Thompson
Writing, Long, May
Hunter S. Thompson, Jann Wenner (2012). “Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

I've been studying drugs for years.

Hunter S. Thompson
Years, Drug, Study
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72”, p.418, Simon and Schuster

I am a writer, a professional journalist with serious credentials in Crime, Craziness, and Politics. I have mingled with dangerous criminals and attended many trials . . . from Hell's Angels, Black Panthers and Chicano street fighters to Roxanne Pulitzer and even Richard Nixon, back in the good old days before he was run out of the White House for fraud, perjury, graft, and criminal negligence.

Hunter S. Thompson
Running, Angel, White
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream”, p.275, Pan Macmillan

But after a while you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth. Most acid fanciers can handle this sort of thing.

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

It was a maddening image and the only way to whip it was to hang on until dusk and banish the ghosts with rum.

Hunter S. Thompson
Way, Ghost, Rum
Hunter S. Thompson (1999). “The Rum Diary: A Novel”, p.191, Simon and Schuster

The only thing wrong with the NBA - or any other professional sport, for that matter - is a wild epidemic of Dumbness and overweening Greed. There is no Mystery about it, and no need to change any rules.

Hunter S. Thompson
Sports, Epidemics, Nba
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward S”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

Duke is an ugly word in Kentucky. Nothing in the world compares to the joy of beating those hateful swine from Duke.

Hunter S. Thompson
Kentucky, Joy, World

No music + Bad TV = Bad mood & no pages.

Hunter S. Thompson
Tvs, Bad Mood, Pages
Hunter S. Thompson, Beef Torrey, Kevin Simonson (2008). “Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson”, p.172, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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