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As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally

As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity.

Hunter S. Thompson
Apathy, Mediocrity, Myopia
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967”, p.139, Ballantine Books

Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.

Hunter S. Thompson
Want, Poor, Mediums
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967”, p.121, Ballantine Books

I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.

Hunter S. Thompson
Believe, Democracy, Republican
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.319, Pan Macmillan

A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.

Hunter S. Thompson
Procrastination, Men, Choices Made
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967”, p.119, Ballantine Books

Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain.

Hunter S. Thompson
Love, Inspirational, Life
"The Proud Highway : The Fear and Loathing Letters" by Hunter S. Thompson, Volume I, (p. 28), 1997.

In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone.

Hunter S. Thompson
Fear And Loathing, World, Finding Peace
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.489, Pan Macmillan

So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?

Hunter S. Thompson
Happiness, Believe, Positivity
Hunter S. Thompson, Beef Torrey, Kevin Simonson (2008). “Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson”, p.14, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.

Hunter S. Thompson
Fear, Atheism, Might
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

As your attorney, it is my duty to inform you that it is not important that you understand what I'm doing or why you're paying me so much money. What's important is that you continue to do so.

Hunter S. Thompson
Important, What's Important, Duty

You won't find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.

Hunter S. Thompson
Men, Mountain, Reasonable

They say that "he who flies highest, falls farthest" - and who am I to argue? But we can't forget that "he who doesn't flap his wings, never flies at all".

Hunter S. Thompson
Fall, Wings, Arguing
"The Proud Highway : The Fear and Loathing Letters" by Hunter S. Thompson, Volume I, (p. 71), 1997.

Every man is the sum total of his reactions to experience. As your experiences differ and multiply, you become a different man, and hence your perspective changes. This goes on and on. Every reaction is a learning process; every significant experience alters your perspective.

Hunter S. Thompson
Motivational, Men, Perspective
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967”, p.117, Ballantine Books

Today's pig is tomorrows bacon!

Hunter S. Thompson
Pigs, Today, Tomorrow
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

Hunter S. Thompson
Gun, Two, Qualms About
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot - and it's only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.

Hunter S. Thompson
Running, Stupid, America
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967”, p.137, Ballantine Books

There’s a lot of things wrong with this country, but one of the few things still right with it is that a man can steer clear of the organized bullshit if he really wants to. It’s a goddamned luxury, and if I were you, I’d take advantage of it while you can.

Hunter S. Thompson
Country, Men, Luxury
Hunter S. Thompson, Douglas Brinkley (2000). “Fear And Loathing In America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

My greatest talent is in my ability to choose good friends. It's about as important as things get.

Hunter S. Thompson
Good Friend, Important, Talent
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I will fight for your right to be weird- just as I know you will fight for mine.

Hunter S. Thompson
Fighting, Epic, Mines
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Better Than Sex: Confessions of a Political Junkie”, Ballantine Books

We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear—fear of war, fear of poverty, fear of random terrorism, fear of getting down-sized or fired because of the plunging economy, fear of getting evicted for bad debts or suddenly getting locked up in a military detention camp on vague charges of being a Terrorist sympathizer.

Hunter S. Thompson
Military, War, Debt
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.215, Pan Macmillan

As long as I'm learning something, I figure I'm OK - it's a decent day.

Hunter S. Thompson
Long, Figures, Decent
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.321, Pan Macmillan

Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.

Hunter S. Thompson
Epic, Used, Dies
Hunter S. Thompson, Beef Torrey, Kevin Simonson (2008). “Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson”, p.192, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Some may never live, but the crazy never die.

Hunter S. Thompson
Crazy, Epic, May
"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

I drink much less than most people think, and I think much more than most people would believe. I am quite sincere about some of the things which people take very lightly, and almost insultingly unconcerned about some of the things which people take most seriously. In short, I am basically antisocial: certainly not to an alarming degree , but just more so than I appear to be.

Hunter S. Thompson
Believe, Thinking, People
"Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967".

Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.

Hunter S. Thompson
Goal, Looks, Way
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967”, p.119, Ballantine Books

I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.

Hunter S. Thompson
Heart, Mind, Looks
FaceBook post by Hunter S. Thompson from Jan 29, 2015

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