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I couldn't imagine, and I don't say this with any pride, but I really couldn't imagine writing without a desperate deadline.

I couldn't imagine, and I don't say this with any pride, but I really couldn't imagine writing without a desperate deadline.

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

The association of motorcycles with LSD is no accident of publicity. They are both a means to an end, to the place of definitions.

Hunter S. Thompson
Mean, Motorcycle, Definitions
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream”, p.90, Pan Macmillan

and he would probably not agree with my conviction that a sense of humor is the main measure of sanity. But who can say for sure? Humor is a very private thing.

Hunter S. Thompson
Sense Of Humor, Sanity, Conviction
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

I was 22 when JFK was murdered, and I will never recover from it... Never.

Hunter S. Thompson
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward S”, p.164, Simon and Schuster

Never create anything, it will be misinterpreted, it will chain you and follow you for the rest of your life.

Hunter S. Thompson
Creativity, Fear And Loathing, Rest Of Your Life
"Fictional character: Arthur". "I'm Not There", www.imdb.com. 2007.

Yes sir, I am a tortured man for all seasons, as they say, and I have powerful friends in high places. Birds sing where I walk, and children smile when they see me coming.

Hunter S. Thompson
Children, Powerful, Men
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.147, Pan Macmillan

Sportswriters are a rude and brainless subculture of fascist drunks

Hunter S. Thompson
Rude, Fascists, Subculture
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

The next MVP of the Super Bowl is just as likely to have been a full-time grocery store bagger last year as a Heisman Trophy winner.

Hunter S. Thompson
Mvp, Years, Lasts
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.8, Pan Macmillan

He knew who I was, at that time, because I had a reputation as a writer. I knew he was part of the Bush dynasty. But he was nothing, he offered nothing, and he promised nothing. He had no humor. He was insignificant in every way and consequently I didn't pay much attention to him. But when he passed out in my bathtub, then I noticed him. I'd been in another room, talking to the bright people. I had to have him taken away.

Hunter S. Thompson
Taken, Talking, Nfl

Ah, fortune and fame shall follow me ... and I shall dwell in the world of the chosen for a few moments of fleeting ecstasy; ere the seven burly lads turn into creditors and hustle me off to debtors' prison at last.

Hunter S. Thompson
Hustle, Fleeting, World
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967”, p.44, Ballantine Books

I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom and pure mathematics

Hunter S. Thompson
Crazy, Long, Nine

Not even the foulest atrocities of Adolf Hitler ever shocked me so badly as these photographs did.

Hunter S. Thompson
Atrocities, Abu Ghraib, Photograph
"EDITORIAL: Hunter S. Thompson went too far" by Ashley ODell, www.imediaethics.org. May 25, 2004.

February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is not even mentioned.

Hunter S. Thompson
Basketball, Sports, Baseball
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.47, Pan Macmillan

I've already become a mastodon in print - I don't see a consciousness for my kind of journalism.

Hunter S. Thompson
Journalism, Kind, Consciousness

Richard Nixon was a criminally insane Monster - Bill Clinton is a black-hearted Swine of a friend.

Hunter S. Thompson
Black, Insane, Monsters
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.42, Pan Macmillan

Some people will say that words like scum and rotten are wrong for Objective Journalism -- which is true, but they miss the point. It was the built-in blind spots of the Objective rules and dogma that allowed Nixon to slither into the White House in the first place.

Hunter S. Thompson
Blind Spots, White, People
Hunter S. Thompson, Jann Wenner (2012). “Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson”, p.430, Simon and Schuster

Sounds of life and movement, people getting ready and people giving up, the sound of hope and the sound of hanging on, and behind them all, the quiet, deadly ticking of a thousand hungry clocks.

Hunter S. Thompson
Giving Up, People, Sound
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Rum Diary: Film Tie-in Edition”, p.213, A&C Black

I don't think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It's lonely out here.

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

There might be some serious fun in politics.

Hunter S. Thompson
Fun, Might, Serious
Hunter S. Thompson, Beef Torrey, Kevin Simonson (2008). “Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson”, p.192, Univ. Press of Mississippi

I felt a strange tightness coming over me, and I reacted instinctively – for the first time in a long, long while – by slipping my notebook into my belt and reaching down to take off my watch. The first thing to go in a street fight is your watch, and once you’ve lost a few, you develop a certain instinct that lets you know when it’s time to get the thing off your wrist and into a safe pocket.

Hunter S. Thompson
Notebook, Fighting, Long
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72”, p.364, Simon and Schuster

Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today's winners are tomorrow's blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope.

Hunter S. Thompson
Gambling, Dumb, Victory

There is a progression of understanding vis-a-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, in the eyes of the amazingly small number of people who own and control the game, because it is this finely managed distance factor that accounts for the high-profit mystique that blew the sacred institution of baseball off its ''national pastime'' pedestal in less than fifteen years.

Hunter S. Thompson
Baseball, Football, Distance
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.56, Pan Macmillan

I have always hated bowling, and I don't mind admitting it.

Hunter S. Thompson
Mind, Admitting, Bowling
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.239, Pan Macmillan

The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President.

Hunter S. Thompson
President, Politics, Serious
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

She was wearing the same clothes, but now she looked haggard and dirty. The delicate illusions that get us through life can only stand so much strain.

Hunter S. Thompson
Dirty, Clothes, Illusion
Hunter S. Thompson (1999). “The Rum Diary: A Novel”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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