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I am more than just a serious basketball fan. I am a life-long addict. I was addicted from birth, in fact, because I was born in Kentucky and I learned, early on, that Habitual Domination was a natural way of life.

I am more than just a serious basketball fan. I am a life-long addict. I was addicted from birth, in fact, because I was born in Kentucky and I learned, early on, that Habitual Domination was a natural way of life.

Hunter S. Thompson
Basketball, Kentucky, Long
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.50, Pan Macmillan

...the crazy never die.

Hunter S. Thompson
Crazy, Dies
Hunter S. Thompson, Beef Torrey, Kevin Simonson (2008). “Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson”, p.19, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Richard Nixon was an evil man - evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency.

Hunter S. Thompson
Believe, Reality, Men
Hunter S. Thompson, Jann Wenner (2012). “Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson”, p.428, Simon and Schuster

Given my calling I had to stumble across people who felt the same way. I was a young reporter.

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

I am a professional sportswriter, among other things, and I take the games seriously. It is only one of my many powerful addictions, and I don't mind admitting any of them.

Hunter S. Thompson
Powerful, Games, Addiction

It is all well and good for children and acid freaks to believe in Santa Claus - but it is still a profoundly morbid day for us working professionals. It is unsettling to know that one out of every twenty people you meet on Xmas will be dead this time next year.... Some people can accept this, and some can't. That is why God made whiskey, and also why Wild Turkey comes in $300 shaped canisters during most of the Christmas season...

Hunter S. Thompson
Xmas, Children, Believe
"Fear and Loathing in Elko" by Hunter S. Thompson, www.rollingstone.com. January 23, 1992.

Weird behavior is natural in smart children, just as curiosity is to a kitten.

Hunter S. Thompson
Children, Smart, Curiosity
"Kingdom of Fear".

There may be flies on you and me, but there are no flies on Jesus.

Hunter S. Thompson
Jesus, May
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

If you consider the great journalists in history, you don't see too many objective journalists on that list.

Hunter S. Thompson
Lists, Journalism, Journalist
Hunter S. Thompson, Beef Torrey, Kevin Simonson (2008). “Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

Without gambling, I would not exist.

Hunter S. Thompson
Gambling
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward S”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

Hallucinations are bad enough. But after awhile 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. But nobody can handle that other trip-the possibility that any freak with $1.98 can walk into the Circus-Circus and suddenly appear in the sky over downtown Las Vegas twelve times the size of God, howling anything that comes into his head. No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs.

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

Whatever he might have denied me was unimportant; it was the fact that he could deny me anything at all, even what I didn't want

Hunter S. Thompson
Want, Might, Facts
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Rum Diary: A Novel”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

I'm not a liberal, by the way.I believe I have every right to have guns. I just bought another huge weapon. A lot of people shouldn't own guns. I should. I have a safety record. Guns are a lot of fun out here.

Hunter S. Thompson
Fun, Believe, Gun
Source: www.fargonebooks.com

and the sad notes floated out to the patio and hung in the trees like birds too tired to fly

Hunter S. Thompson
Tired, Bird, Tree
Hunter S. Thompson (1999). “The Rum Diary: A Novel”, p.204, Simon and Schuster

Marathon running, like golf, is a game for players, not winners. That is why Callaway sells golf clubs and Nike sells running shoes. But running is unique in that the world's best racers are on the same course, at the same time, as amateurs, who have as much chance of winning as your average weekend warrior would scoring a touchdown in the NFL.

Hunter S. Thompson
Nike, Running, Warrior
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.199, Pan Macmillan

The Hell's Angels try not to do anything halfway, and anyone who deals in extremes is bound to cause trouble, whether he means to or not. This, along with a belief in total retaliation for any offense or insult, is what makes the Hell's Angels unmanageable for the police and morbidly fascinating to the general public.

Hunter S. Thompson
Mean, Angel, Police
Arlen (CON) Ness, Michael Dregni, Evel Knievel, Jean (FRW) Davidson, Sonny Barger, Hunter S. (CON) Thompson “The Harley-Davidson Reader”

In four short years he has turned our country from a prosperous nation at peace into a desperately indebted nation at war. But so what? He is the President of the United States, and you're not. Love it or leave it.

Hunter S. Thompson
Country, War, Years
Hunter S. Thompson, Jann Wenner (2011). “Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson”, p.486, Simon and Schuster

By the time I got to high school I knew what I was gonna do. Mainly because I looked around and saw there wasn't much else I was able to do. I was a criminal. I was a juvenile delinquent.

Hunter S. Thompson
School, Able, Saws
Source: www.fargonebooks.com

Those of us that had been up all night were in no mood for coffee and donuts, we wanted strong drink. We were, after all, the cream of the national sporting press.

Hunter S. Thompson
Strong, Coffee, Night

It was the kind of town that made you feel like Humphrey Bogart: you came in on a bumpy little plane, and, for some mysterious reason, got a private room with a balcony overlooking the town and the harbor; then you sat there and drank until something happened.

Hunter S. Thompson
Littles, Rooms, Towns
"The Rum Diary". Book by Hunter S. Thompson, 1998.

The years after 2000 will be a monumental change in the way life is lived here. It will be harder and harder to relate to our children. I don't know what it's going to be. I don't plan to be around in the year 2000. I'll be taken away by the Sufi God.

Hunter S. Thompson
Children, Taken, Years
Source: www.fargonebooks.com

Allen [ Ginsberg] was a particular friend, one of my heroes, really. I knew him almost as long as I've been writing.

Hunter S. Thompson
Hero, Writing, Long
Source: www.fargonebooks.com

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

Hunter S. Thompson
Morning, Business, Hair

By disgracing and degrading the presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart of the American Dream.

Hunter S. Thompson
Dream, Heart, White
Hunter S. Thompson, Jann Wenner (2012). “Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson”, p.432, Simon and Schuster

right' i said. 'but first, we need the car. and after that, the cocaine. and then the tape recorder, for special music, and some acapulco shirts.

Hunter S. Thompson
Car, Special, Tape
Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.15, Vintage

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