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Most of my stuff is just a series of false leads. I'll approach a story as a subject and then make a whole bunch of different runs at the lead. They're all good writing but they don't connect. So I end up having to

Most of my stuff is just a series of false leads. I'll approach a story as a subject and then make a whole bunch of different runs at the lead. They're all good writing but they don't connect. So I end up having to string leads together.

Hunter S. Thompson
Running, Writing, Together
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.272, Pan Macmillan

I had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth.

Hunter S. Thompson
Heart, Youth, Spots
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.233, Pan Macmillan

Nixon had the unique ability to make his enemies seem honorable, and we developed a keen sense of fraternity. Some of my best friends have hated Nixon all their lives. My mother hates Nixon, my son hates Nixon, I hate Nixon, and this hatred has brought us together.

Hunter S. Thompson
Mother, Hate, Son
Hunter S. Thompson, Jann Wenner (2012). “Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson”, p.427, Simon and Schuster

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

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

Nixon was a bad loser. He hated losing worse than death, and that is why I enjoyed him. We were both football fans, both addicts; and on some days, nothing else mattered.

Hunter S. Thompson
Football, Fans, Losing

Richard Nixon looks like a flaming liberal today, compared to a golem like George Bush. Indeed. Where is Richard Nixon now that we finally need him?

Hunter S. Thompson
Needs, Looks, Today
Hunter S. Thompson, Jann Wenner (2011). “Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson”, p.487, Simon and Schuster

Nixon was a crook, of course, but he was also a rabid football fan - and he knew the game, which still astounds me, but I have always had a soft spot for him because of it.

Hunter S. Thompson
Football, Games, Fans

I'd almost prefer [Richard] Nixon. I'd say [Bill] Clinton is every bit as corrupt as Nixon, but a lot smoother.

Hunter S. Thompson
Bills, Clinton, Bits
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One thing I have learned in my painful career as a gambler is that bragging when you get lucky and win a few games will plunge you into gloom and unacceptable beatings very soon. It happens every time.

Hunter S. Thompson
Winning, Games, Careers
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.144, Pan Macmillan

Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times.

Hunter S. Thompson
Numbers, Criminals, Dollars
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream”, p.291, Pan Macmillan

The best thing about the Kentucky Derby is that it is only two minutes long. It is the quickest event in sports, except for Sumo-wrestling & Mike Tyson fights. Maybe Drag-racing is quicker, but I have never been attracted to it.

Hunter S. Thompson
Sports, Wrestling, Fighting
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.82, Pan Macmillan

It might be a little rough on some people for a while, but I think it's the only way to deal with drugs. Look at Prohibition: all it did was make a lot of criminals rich. Should be legalized for a matter of sanity.

Hunter S. Thompson
Thinking, People, Drug
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Kill the body and the head will die.

Hunter S. Thompson
Boxing, Body, Dies
Hunter S. Thompson (2003). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.538, Simon and Schuster

I got tired and embarrassed by the constant poverty of those years. I told Doug [ Brinkley] this is really going to be a horrible downer of a book [The Proud Highway] if all it's going to be is about being broke. I didn't like being reminded of desperation at all times.

Hunter S. Thompson
Book, Tired, Years
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Sometimes you're fooled quickly. You want to be fooled. If you can't trust your first impression you're going to have a harder time than you should.

Hunter S. Thompson
First Impression, Want, Firsts
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I was kind of relieved with the way the book [The Proud Highway] came out. It's beyond an autobiography or a biography. I never knew what was going to come up next.

Hunter S. Thompson
Book, Proud, Biographies
Source: www.fargonebooks.com

They don't hardly make 'em like him any more - but just to be on the safe side, he should be castrated anyway.

Hunter S. Thompson
Sarcastic, Safe, Sides
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.217, Simon and Schuster

Jim Harrison is someone I always enjoy, one of the great contemporary writers. I like Tim Ferris' Big Boom Theory. I'm getting into a different kind of reading, not straight novels.

Hunter S. Thompson
Reading, Different, Kind
Source: www.fargonebooks.com

March is a month without mercy for rabid basketball fans. There is no such thing as a 'gentleman gambler' when the Big Dance rolls around. All sheep will be fleeced, all fools will be punished severely... There are no Rules when the deal goes down in the final weeks of March. Even your good friends will turn into monsters.

Hunter S. Thompson
Basketball, Good Friend, Sheep
"Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness".

I voted for Ralph Nader in 2000, but I will not make that mistake again. The joke is over for Nader. He was funny once, but now he belongs to the dead.

Hunter S. Thompson
Mistake, Jokes

I'll call New York for some cash.

Hunter S. Thompson
New York, Cash
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.534, Simon and Schuster

Just sick enough to be totally confident

Hunter S. Thompson
Sick, Fear And Loathing, Enough
Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.201, Vintage

I had a truly horrible dream last night ... [Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mike Tyson and I] were on our way to a TV studio for a debate about his long-time working friendship with the powerful Bush family from Texas and how it might affect the next Bush presidency when The Terminator seizes power in Sacramento and tries to hand over the state's 54 electoral votes by election day in 2004. That is the basic plan behind Schwarzenegger running. He doesn't want to be Governor, he just wants the electoral votes to go to Bush this time.

Hunter S. Thompson
Running, Dream, Powerful
"Nightmare in La-la Land". www.espn.com. August 17, 2003.

The behavior of the crowd at Churchill Downs is like 100,000 vicious Hyenas going berserk all at once in a space about the size of a 777 jet or the White House lawn.

Hunter S. Thompson
White, Space, House
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.80, Pan Macmillan

Crack is ruining the drug culture.

Hunter S. Thompson
Drug, Cracks, Culture

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