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One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won't have to go looking

One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won't have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.

Hunter S. Thompson
Sports, Winning, Vices
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.287, Pan Macmillan

1) Never trust a cop in a raincoat. 2) Beware of enthusiasm and of love, both are temporary and quick to sway. 3) If asked if you care about the world's problems, look deep into the eyes of he who asks, he will never ask you again. 4) Never give your real name. 5) If ever asked to look at yourself, don't look. 6) Never do anything the person standing in front of you can't understand. 7) Never create anything, it will be misinterpreted, it will chain you and follow you for the rest of your life.

Hunter S. Thompson
Real, Eye, Names

The first impression is always the right one. I rarely change my mind upward about people.

Hunter S. Thompson
People, Mind, First Impression
Source: www.fargonebooks.com

As you were, I was. As I am, you will be.

Hunter S. Thompson
Funny
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga: A Strange and Terrible Saga”, p.260, Ballantine Books

I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.

Hunter S. Thompson
Real, Distance, Felt

It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.

Hunter S. Thompson
Men, Obvious, Rhythm
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga: A Strange and Terrible Saga”, p.224, Ballantine Books

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

Hunter S. Thompson
Beauty, Soul, Triumph

It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat sh** and die.

Hunter S. Thompson
Epic, People, Fear And Loathing
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

Happy," I muttered, trying to pin the word down. But it is one of those words, like Love, that I have never quite understood. Most people who deal in words don’t have much faith in them and I am no exception – especially the big ones like Happy and Love and Honest and Strong. They are too elusive and far to relative when you compare them to sharp, mean little words like Punk and Cheap and Phony. I feel at home with these, because they’re scrawny and easy to pin, but the big ones are tough and it takes either a priest or a fool to use them with any confidence.

Hunter S. Thompson
Strong, Mean, Home
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Rum Diary: Film Tie-in Edition”, p.57, A&C Black

We can't stop here, this is bat country!

Hunter S. Thompson
Country, Vegas, Fear And Loathing
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.535, Simon and Schuster

At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards.

Hunter S. Thompson
Snow, Mountain, Leopards
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.134, Simon and Schuster

I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it.

Hunter S. Thompson
Country, Generations, Shapes
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward S”, p.225, Simon and Schuster

Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.

Hunter S. Thompson
Life, Morality, Permanent
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

Richard Nixon has never been one of my favorite people anyway. For years I've regarded his existence as a monument to all the rancid genes and broken chromosomes that corrupt the possibilities of the American Dream; he was a foul caricature of himself, a man with no soul, no inner convictions, with the integrity of a hyena and the style of a poison toad. The Nixon I remembered was absolutely humorless; I couldn't imagine him laughing at anything except maybe a paraplegic who wanted to vote Democratic but couldn't quite reach the lever on the voting machine.

Hunter S. Thompson
Dream, Integrity, Men
"Pageant" Magazine, July 1968.

A man who has blown all his options can't afford the luxury of changing his ways. He has to capitalize on whatever he has left, and he can't afford to admit - no matter how often he's reminded of it - that every day of his life takes him farther and farther down a blind alley.

Hunter S. Thompson
Men, Luxury, Fear And Loathing
FaceBook post by Hunter S. Thompson from Nov 26, 2014

Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can't reach.

Hunter S. Thompson
Bridges, Fiction, Journalism

I think I'm one of the most patriotic people that I've ever encountered in America. I consider myself a bedrock patriot. I participate very actively in local politics, because my voice might be worthwhile. I participate in a meaningful way - not by donations; I work at it.

Hunter S. Thompson
Meaningful, Patriotic, Thinking
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.319, Pan Macmillan

Ah, that we lack the courage of our romantic convictions; and thereby miss the wine of life, forgoing the very thing that makes living worthwhile.

Hunter S. Thompson
Wine, Missing, Conviction
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967”, p.111, Ballantine Books

[Chicago]: This vicious, stinking zoo, this mean-grinning, mace-smelling boneyard of a city: an elegant rockpile of a monument to everything cruel and stupid and corrupt in the human spirit.

Hunter S. Thompson
Zoos, Stupid, Mean
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.

Hunter S. Thompson
Pain, Hate, Good Things
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.265, Pan Macmillan

There's a terrible danger in voting for the lesser of two evils because the parties can set it up that way.

Hunter S. Thompson
Party, Two, Evil
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.232, Pan Macmillan

I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me

Hunter S. Thompson
Money, Writing, Epic
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967”, p.106, Ballantine Books

Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don't tell them anything.

Hunter S. Thompson
Police, Cop

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.

Hunter S. Thompson
Inspirational, Crazy, Epic
Hunter S. Thompson (2003). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.530, Simon and Schuster

No one HAS to do something he doesn’t want to do for the rest of his life. But then again, if that’s what you wind up doing, by all means convince yourself that you HAD to do it. You’ll have lots of company.

Hunter S. Thompson
Mean, Wind, Want

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