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There was an awful suspicion in my mind that I'd finally gone over the hump, and the worst thing about it was that I didn't feel tragic at all, but only weary, and sort of comfortably detached.

There was an awful suspicion in my mind that I'd finally gone over the hump, and the worst thing about it was that I didn't feel tragic at all, but only weary, and sort of comfortably detached.

Hunter S. Thompson
Mind, Gone, Awful
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Rum Diary: Film Tie-in Edition”, p.126, A&C Black

Wake up and ponder the future

Hunter S. Thompson
Travel, Wake Up, Homesick
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Rum Diary: A Novel”, p.185, Simon and Schuster

Anything worth doing is worth doing well.

Hunter S. Thompson
Perfection, Excellence, Quality
Hunter S. Thompson, Jann Wenner (2012). “Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson”, p.312, Simon and Schuster

All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name. Remembered line from a long- forgotten poem

Hunter S. Thompson
Heart, Names, Long
FaceBook post by Hunter S. Thompson from Aug 02, 2014

God's mercy on you degenerate swine.

Hunter S. Thompson
Degenerates, Mercy, Swine

Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.

Hunter S. Thompson
Long, Journalism, Reason
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.234, Pan Macmillan

There is something fresh and crisp about the first hours of a Caribbean day, a happy anticipation that something is about to happen, maybe just up the street or around the next corner.

Hunter S. Thompson
Next, Firsts, Anticipation
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Rum Diary: A Novel”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs. Reality itself is too twisted.

Hunter S. Thompson
Reality, Vegas, Drug
Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.47, Vintage

When you write for a living and you can't do anything else, you know that sooner or later that the deadline is going to come screaming down on you like a goddamn banshee. There's no avoiding it...So one day you just don't appear at the El Adobe bar anymore; you shut the door, paint the windows black, rent an electric typewriter and become the monster you always were - the writer.

Hunter S. Thompson
Writing, Typewriters, Doors

All we have to do is get out and vote, while it's still legal, and we will wash those crooked warmongers out of the White House.

Hunter S. Thompson
White, House, Voting

Good mescaline comes on slow. The first hour is all waiting, then about halfway through the second hour you start cursing the creep who burned you, because nothing is happening...and then ZANG!

Hunter S. Thompson
Waiting, Firsts, Loathing
Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.47, Vintage

I don't mean to say that I'm about to state my credo here on this page, but merely to affirm, sincerely for the first time in my life, my belief in man as an individual and independent entity. Certainly not independence in the everyday sense of the word, but pertaining to a freedom and mobility of thought that few people are able - or even have the courage - to achieve.

Hunter S. Thompson
Mean, Independent, Men
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967”, p.70, Ballantine Books

Familiarity seems to breed contempt

Hunter S. Thompson
Contempt, Seems, Familiarity
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga: A Strange and Terrible Saga”, p.254, Ballantine Books

I never knew where I was going, but I ripped the tits off of everything that got in my way. By the time they figured me out, it was too late.

Hunter S. Thompson
Too Late, Way, Ripped

Anybody who thinks that 'it doesn't matter who's President' has never been Drafted and sent off to fight and die in a vicious, stupid war on the other side of the world

Hunter S. Thompson
Stupid, War, Fighting
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.294, Pan Macmillan

Stay naked as much as possible, but do not impose your orgiastic will on others. Don't have sex in the lobby - it's usually awkward.

Hunter S. Thompson
Sex, Awkward, Naked

Every reaction is a learning process; every significant experience alters your perspective. So it would seem foolish, would it not, to adjust our lives to the demands of a goal we see from a different angle everyday? How could we ever hope to accomplish anything anther than galloping neurosis?

Hunter S. Thompson
Goal, Perspective, Everyday

Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

Hunter S. Thompson
Truth, Cells, Hunters
1973 'Fear and Loathing at the Superbowl', in Rolling Stone, 15 Feb.

To make a point of declaring friendship is to cheapen it. For men's emotions are very rarely put into words successfully.

Hunter S. Thompson
Men, Emotion, Declaring
Hunter S. Thompson (2014). “The Proud Highway: Rejacketed”, p.70, Bloomsbury Publishing

Fear is just another word for ignorance.

Hunter S. Thompson
Ignorance
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.320, Pan Macmillan

Bill Clinton does not inhale marijuana, right? You bet. Like I chew on LSD but I don't swallow it.'

Hunter S. Thompson
Marijuana, Doe, Bills
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Better Than Sex”, p.61, Pan Macmillan

I knew a Buddhist once, and I've hated myself ever since.

Hunter S. Thompson
Buddhist, Hated
"Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century". Book by Hunter S. Thompson, 2004.

I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.

Hunter S. Thompson
Beach, Needs, Blackness
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967”, p.108, Ballantine Books

The regrets I have are so minor. You know, would I leave my Keith Richards hat, with the silver skull on it, on the stool at the coffee shop at LaGuardia? I wouldn't do that again. But overall, no, I don't have any regrets.

Hunter S. Thompson
Regret, Coffee, Skulls
Hunter S. Thompson, Beef Torrey, Kevin Simonson (2008). “Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

I find that by putting things in writing I can understand them and see them a little more objectively. ... For words are merely tools and if you use the right ones you can actually put even your life in order, if you don't lie to yourself and use the wrong words.

Hunter S. Thompson
Lying, Writing, Order
"The Proud Highway : The Fear and Loathing Letters" by Hunter S. Thompson, Volume I, (p. 133), 1997.

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