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All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way.

All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way.

Hunter S. Thompson
Gun, People, Political
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

On some nights, I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.

Hunter S. Thompson
Running, Believe, Night
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.342, Simon and Schuster

I was never trying, necessarily, to be an outlaw. It was just the place in which I found myself.

Hunter S. Thompson
Trying, Outlaw, Found
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.267, Pan Macmillan

There is no story unless you've written it.

Hunter S. Thompson
Writing, Stories, Written
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.273, Pan Macmillan

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

Hunter S. Thompson
Fun, Vegas, Fear And Loathing
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream”, p.238, Pan Macmillan

It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.

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

I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.

Hunter S. Thompson
White, House, Missing
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.282, Pan Macmillan

The slow-rising central horror of "Watergate" is not that it might grind down to the reluctant impeachment of a vengeful thug of a president whose entire political career has been a monument to the same kind of cheap shots and treachery he finally got nailed for, but that we might somehow fail to learn something from it.

Hunter S. Thompson
Thug, Careers, Political
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.242, Pan Macmillan

Maybe there is no Heaven. Or maybe this is all pure gibberish - a product of the demented imagination of a lazy drunken hillbilly with a heart full of hate who has found a way to live out where the real winds blow - to sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky, and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind except falling in love and not getting arrested... Res ipsa loquitur. Let the good times roll.

Hunter S. Thompson
Falling In Love, Fun, Hate
"Gonzo Papers, Vol. 2: Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80s". Book by Hunter S. Thompson, 1988.

Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.

Hunter S. Thompson
Running, Believe, Inspiration
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.342, Simon and Schuster

Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why.

Hunter S. Thompson
Yesterday, Reason Why, Tomorrow
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.185, Simon and Schuster

The Edge...There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. The others-the living-are those who pushed their control as far as they felt they could handle it, and then pulled back, or slowed down, or did whatever they had to when it came time to choose between Now and Later. But the edge is still Out there.

Hunter S. Thompson
People, Hunters, Gone
FaceBook post by Hunter S. Thompson from Sep 05, 2014

The pleasure is in the path, the search for something good.

Hunter S. Thompson
Path, Pleasure

With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.

Hunter S. Thompson
Depressing, Alternatives, Dull
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, Simon and Schuster

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Hunter S. Thompson
Inspirational, Faith, Humor
"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives... and to the "good life", whatever it is and wherever it happens to be.

Hunter S. Thompson
Good Life, Rain, Coffee
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967”, p.101, Ballantine Books

It's in my interest, in ours perhaps, or maybe the interests of the greater good, for me to smoke a joint, and calm down.

Hunter S. Thompson
Joints, Calm, Interest

He had that rare weird electricity about him - that extremely wild and heavy presence that you only see in a person who has abandoned all hope of ever behaving normally.

Hunter S. Thompson
Humorous, Electricity, Abandoned
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond.

Hunter S. Thompson
News, Priceless, Should
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.235, Pan Macmillan

Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.

Hunter S. Thompson
Beautiful, Graffiti, Faces

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

Hunter S. Thompson
Funny, Truth, Work
Hunter S. Thompson, Beef Torrey, Kevin Simonson (2008). “Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson”, p.13, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Every GOP administration since 1952 has let the Military-Industrial Complex loot the Treasury and plunge the nation into debt on the excuse of a wartime economic emergency.

Hunter S. Thompson
Military, Debt, Emergencies
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson”, p.564, Penguin UK

I have never felt comfortable around people who talk about their feelings for Jesus, or any other deity for that matter, because they are usually none too bright... Or maybe "stupid" is a better way of saying it; but I have never seen much point in getting heavy with either stupid people or Jesus freaks, just as long as they don't bother me. 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. They will not inherit the earth, but then neither will I.

Hunter S. Thompson
Jesus, Stupid, Long
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.489, Pan Macmillan

No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it off to forced conscious expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten.

Hunter S. Thompson
Life, Epic, Las Vegas
Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.89, Vintage

There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.

Hunter S. Thompson
Moments, Paranoia, Worst
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.88, Pan Macmillan

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