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I feel trapped if I know I can't kill myself at anytime

I feel trapped if I know I can't kill myself at anytime

Hunter S. Thompson
Feels, Knows, Ifs

I may sound a little black, but I'm really pretty well adjusted.

Hunter S. Thompson
Black, Sound, May
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967”, p.109, Ballantine Books

The scene I had just witnessed (a couple making love in the ocean) brought back a lot of memories – not of things I had done but of things I had failed to do, wasted hours and frustrated moments and opportunities forever lost because time had eaten so much of my life and I would never get it back. I envied Yeoman and felt sorry for myself at the same time, because I had seen him in a moment that made all my happiness seem dull.

Hunter S. Thompson
Sorry, Couple, Memories

October is the cruelest month of any election year, but by then, the pain is so great that even the strong are like jelly and time has lost all meaning for anybody still involved in a political campaign. By that time, even candidates running unopposed have abandoned all hope of victory and live only for the day when they will finally be free to seek vengeance on all those treacherous bastards who once passed themselves off as loyal friends and allies and swore they were only in it because they all shared the same hopes and dreams.

Hunter S. Thompson
Running, Dream, Strong
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream”, p.16, Pan Macmillan

I keep my mouth shut now. I've turned into a professional coward.

Hunter S. Thompson
Coward, Mouths
Source: blankonblank.org

It's the difference between watching a football game between two teams you don't care about, and watching a game where you have some kind of personal identity with one of the teams, if only a huge bet.

Hunter S. Thompson
Football, Team, Games
Source: www.rollingstone.com

The McGovern/McCarthy type candidacies have disappointed too many people, because of a disillusionment with the candidates themselves.

Hunter S. Thompson
People, Type, Disillusionment
Source: www.rollingstone.com

There's no point in getting into politics at all unless you plan to lash things around.

Hunter S. Thompson
Lashes, Plans, No Point
Source: www.rollingstone.com

"Perceive" is the word that became in the '72 campaign what "charisma" was for the 1960, '64 and even the '68 campaigns. "Perceive" is the new key word. When you say perceive you imply the difference between what the candidate is and the way the public or the voters see him.

Hunter S. Thompson
Keys, Differences, Campaigns
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72”, p.404, Simon and Schuster

It's much more fun to run a political campaign than it is to be the candidate.

Hunter S. Thompson
Running, Fun, Political
Source: www.rollingstone.com

You almost have to be a rock star to generate the kind of fever you need to survive in American politics.

Hunter S. Thompson
Stars, Rocks, Needs
Source: www.rollingstone.com

What the hell is the sense of trying to hold the Democratic party together, if it's really a party of expediency, something that's put together every four years?

Hunter S. Thompson
Party, Years, Trying
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72”, p.455, Simon and Schuster

Any candidate who'd offered a real possibility of an alternative to Nixon - someone with a different concept of the presidency - could have challenged him and come very close to beating him.

Hunter S. Thompson
Real, Different, Alternatives
Source: www.rollingstone.com

I think it might be better to have the President sort of like the King of England - or the Queen - and have the real business of the presidency conducted by ... a city manager-type, a Prime Minister, somebody who's directly answerable to Congress, rather than a person who moves all his friends into the White House and does whatever he wants for four years.

Hunter S. Thompson
Queens, Kings, Real
Source: www.rollingstone.com

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