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There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.

There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.

Hunter S. Thompson
Fun, Smart, Gambling
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.63, Pan Macmillan

No cop was ever born who wasn't a sucker for a finely-executed high-speed Controlled Drift all the way around one of those clover-leaf freeway interchanges.

Hunter S. Thompson
Way, Cop, Speed

There is a huge body of evidence to support the notion that me and the police were put on this earth to do extremely different things and never to mingle professionally with each other, except at official functions, when we all wear ties and drink heavily and whoop it up like the natural, good-humored wild boys that we know in our hearts that we are..These occasions are rare, but they happen - despite the forked tongue of fate that has put us forever on different paths.

Hunter S. Thompson
Heart, Fate, Boys
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

The Sixties were an era of extreme reality. I miss the smell of tear gas. I miss the fear of getting beaten.

Hunter S. Thompson
Reality, Smell, Missing

Las Vegas is the savage heart of the American Dream.

Hunter S. Thompson
Dream, Heart, Vegas

I can't think in terms of journalism without thinking in terms of political ends. Unless there's been a reaction, there's been no journalism. It's cause and effect.

Hunter S. Thompson
Thinking, Political, Causes
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.236, Pan Macmillan

There are times, however, and this is one of them, when even being right feels wrong. What do you say, for instance, about a generation that has been taught that rain is poison and sex is death?

Hunter S. Thompson
Sex, Rain, Hunters
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

I guess that's one of the things about growing up in the fifties - it never occurred to me that you wouldn't be at least as successful as your parents.

Hunter S. Thompson
Growing Up, Successful, Parent
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.240, Pan Macmillan

There is a progression of understanding vis-à-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance --physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way. . . Which is exactly the way it should be . . .

Hunter S. Thompson
Football, Distance, Emotional
Hunter S. Thompson, Jann Wenner (2012). “Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson”, p.232, Simon and Schuster

There was no time for scholarly details, and, besides, I have always believed that a man can fairly be judged by the standards and taste of his choices in matters of high-level plagiarism.

Hunter S. Thompson
Men, Choices, Details
"Prisoner of Denver", Vanity Fair, June 2004.

Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces.

Hunter S. Thompson
Gambling, Two, Pieces

We came down here to see this teddible scene: people all pissed out of their minds and vomiting on themselves and all that and now, you know what? It's us

Hunter S. Thompson
People, Mind, Vomiting
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.24, Pan Macmillan

Las Vegas makes Reno seem like your friendly neighborhood grocery store.

Hunter S. Thompson
Vegas, Friendly, Like You
Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.42, Vintage

A little bit of this town goes a very long way. After five days in Vegas you feel like you've been here for five years.

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

Hit him again, Jack! He's crazy!

Hunter S. Thompson
Crazy
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream”, p.29, Pan Macmillan

But I am in the gambling business, for good or ill; it is the business I have chosen, and the only governing rule that we all recognize is: always sit close to an exit and never trust a man who doesn't sweat.

Hunter S. Thompson
Men, Gambling, Sweat
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream”, p.221, Pan Macmillan

We must have football. What would this country be without football in October?

Hunter S. Thompson
Sports, Football, Country

Which is not really a hell of a lot to ask, Lord, because the final incredible truth is that I am not guilty. All I did was take your gibberish seriously... and you see where it got me? My primitive Christian instincts have made me a criminal.

Hunter S. Thompson
Christian, Criminals, Finals
Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.87, Vintage

it's 12 amyl nitrites (one box), in conjunction with as many beers as necessary.

Hunter S. Thompson
Hangover, Beer, Boxes

My blood is too thick for California: I have never been able to properly explain myself in this climate.

Hunter S. Thompson
California, Blood, Fear And Loathing
Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.14, Vintage

The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.

Hunter S. Thompson
Sports, Golf, Play

I have stolen more quotes and thoughts and purely elegant little starbursts of writing from the Book of Revelation than anything else in the English language - and it is not because I am a biblical scholar, or because of any religious faith, but because I love the wild power of the language and the purity of the madness that governs it and makes it music.

Hunter S. Thompson
Love, Religious, Book
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

I believe that the major operating ethic in American society right now, the most universal want and need is to be on TV. I've been on TV. I could be on TV all the time if I wanted to. But most people will never get on TV. It has to be a real breakthrough for them. And trouble is, people will do almost anything to get on it. You know, confess to crimes they haven't committed. You don't exist unless you're on TV. Yeah, it's a validation process.

Hunter S. Thompson
Real, Believe, Validation
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.228, Pan Macmillan

You took too much man, too much, too much.

Hunter S. Thompson
Men, Too Much

Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.

Hunter S. Thompson
President, Saint, Great Presidents
Hunter S. Thompson, Jann Wenner (2011). “Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson”, p.429, Simon and Schuster

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