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It will be a Religious War, a sort of Christian Jihad, fueled by religious hatred and led by merciless fanatics on both sides. It will be guerilla warfare on a global scale, with no front lines and no identifiable enemy.

It will be a Religious War, a sort of Christian Jihad, fueled by religious hatred and led by merciless fanatics on both sides. It will be guerilla warfare on a global scale, with no front lines and no identifiable enemy.

Hunter S. Thompson
Christian, Religious, War
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.106, Pan Macmillan

Fear is a healthy instinct, not a sign of weakness. It is a natural self-defense mechanism that is common to felines, wolves, hyenas, and most humans. Even fruit bats know fear, and I salute them for it. If you think the world is weird now, imagine how weird it would be if wild beasts had no fear.

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Thinking, Self, Healthy
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it.

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Law, Outlaw, Defined
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

Some people will tell you that slow is good - but I'm here to tell you that fast is better. I've always believed this, in spite of the trouble it's caused me. Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba.

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People, Motorcycle, Trouble

I have always loved marijuana. It has been a source of joy and comfort to me for many years. And I still think of it as a basic staple of life, along with beer and ice and grapefruits - and millions of Americans agree with me.

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Weed, Beer, Thinking

That is the problem with this rich and anguished generation. Somewhere a long time ago they fell in love with the idea that politicians- even the slickest and brightest presidential candidates- were real heroes and truly exciting people. That is wrong on its face. They are mainly dull people with corrupt instincts and criminal children.

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Children, Real, Hero
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.265, Simon and Schuster

Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.

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People, Reason, Liberalism
Source: www.rollingstone.com

I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your head - big darkness, soon come - but every once in a while you get a fair chance to have it both ways, and the annual NCAA basketball Tournament is one of them.

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Basketball, Heart, Ncaa

For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.

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Vegas, Gambling, Earth
Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.42, Vintage

The most important thing a writer can have [is] the ability to live with the constant loneliness and a strong sense of revulsion for the banalities of everyday socializing.

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Strong, Loneliness, Writing
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967”, p.128, Ballantine Books

Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of 'the rat race' is not yet final.

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Hero, Race, Champion
1969 'Those Daring Young Men In Their Flying Machines Ain't What They Used To Be!', in Pageant, Sep.

Most of my friends are into strange things I don't really understand - and with a few shameful exceptions I wish them all well. Who am I, after all, to tell some friend he shouldn't change his name to Oliver High, get rid of his family, and join a Satanism cult in Seattle? Or to argue with another friend who wants to buy a single-shot Remington Fireball so he can go out and shoot cops from a safe distance?

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Distance, Names, Wish

Everyone crashes Some get back on Some don't Some can't.

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Bikers, Crash, Get Back

Rush Limbaugh is a lame professional swine, and he makes a good living at it. He is like a hired geek in some traveling backwoods carnival - the freaks who bite the heads off chickens - but Limbaugh is a modernized geek who thinks he can bite the heads off of people.

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Thinking, People, Lame

I shared a vagrant optimism that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of us would inevitably make it over the top. At the same time, I felt that the life we were leading was a lost cause, that we were all actor, kidding ourselves on a senseless odyssey. It was the tension between those two poles - a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other - that kept me going.

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Real, Taken, Hands
"The Rum Diary". Book by Hunter S. Thompson, 1998.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

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Christian, Wise, Men

A cap of good acid costs $5, and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony, with God singing solo and the Holy Ghost on drums.

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Symphony, Singing, Dollars
"The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time".

I understand that fear is my friend, but not always. Never turn your back on Fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed. My father taught me that, along with a few other things that have kept my life interesting.

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

It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.

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Fall, Mermaid, Pool
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.47, Pan Macmillan

All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes.

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

I’m a word freak. I like words. I’ve always compared writing to music. That’s the way I feel about good paragraphs. When it really works, it’s like music.

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Writing, Way, Freak
FaceBook post by Hunter S. Thompson from Jul 22, 2014

Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it.

Hunter S. Thompson
Funny Life, People, Luck
Hunter S. Thompson (2014). “Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist 1968-1976”, p.19, Bloomsbury Publishing

We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear

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

It was one of those fine little love stories that can make you smile in your sleep at night.

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Sleep, Night, Make You Smile
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.336, Simon and Schuster

Did you see Bush on TV, trying to debate? Jesus, he talked like a donkey with no brains at all...It was pitiful...I almost felt sorry for him, until I heard someone call him 'Mr. President,' and then I felt ashamed.

Hunter S. Thompson
Jesus, Sorry, Brain

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