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The Raiders of old were vicious and crazy and cruel. Hanging around their locker room was like hanging around the weight room at Folsom Prison.

The Raiders of old were vicious and crazy and cruel. Hanging around their locker room was like hanging around the weight room at Folsom Prison.

Hunter S. Thompson
Crazy, Weight, Lockers

Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.

Hunter S. Thompson
Writing, Thinking, Has Beens
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.205, Pan Macmillan

Truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen.

Hunter S. Thompson
Truth, Fiction, Truth Is
Hunter S. Thompson, Beef Torrey, Kevin Simonson (2008). “Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson”, p.188, Univ. Press of Mississippi

My first feeling was a wild desire to drive a stake in the sand and claim the place for myself. The beach was white as salt, and cut off from the world by a ring of steep hills that faced the sea. We were on the edge of a large bay and the water was that clear, turquoise color that you get with a white sand bottom. I had never seen such a place. I wanted to take off all my clothes and never wear them again.

Hunter S. Thompson
Beach, Cutting, Color
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Rum Diary: Film Tie-in Edition”, p.134, A&C Black

I am a road man for the lords of karma.

Hunter S. Thompson
Karma, Men, Lord
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.337, Pan Macmillan

We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like "I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive...." And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about a hundred miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas.

Hunter S. Thompson
Las Vegas, Sky, Top Down
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas pt. 1 (1971)

There is nothing Modern about doing dumb things for dumb reasons.

Hunter S. Thompson
Dumb, Dumb Things, Reason
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.64, Pan Macmillan

The brutal reality of politics would be probably intolerable without drugs.

Hunter S. Thompson
Reality, Drug, Would Be

I have always loved blizzards, if only because of the driving experience - which is definitely an acquired taste.

Hunter S. Thompson
Taste, Driving, Blizzard

It never got weird enough for me.

Hunter S. Thompson
Enough
Hunter S. Thompson (2003). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century”, p.281, Simon and Schuster

One of the advantages of being dead, I guess, is that somebody else can edit all this.

Hunter S. Thompson
Advantage, Edits
Hunter S. Thompson, Beef Torrey, Kevin Simonson (2008). “Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson”, p.121, Univ. Press of Mississippi

If you work in either journalism or politics... you will be flogged for being right and flogged for being wrong, and it hurts both ways-but it doesn't hurt as much when you're right.

Hunter S. Thompson
Hurt, Way, Journalism
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

Nixon was a professional politician, and I despised everything he stood for -- but if he were running for president this year against the evil Bush-Cheney gang, I would happily vote for him.

Hunter S. Thompson
Running, Years, Evil
Hunter S. Thompson, Jann Wenner (2011). “Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson”, p.487, Simon and Schuster

The most consistent and ultimately damaging failure of political journalism in America (is that it) has its roots in the clubby/cocktail personal relationships that inevitably develop between politicians and journalists.

Hunter S. Thompson
Roots, America, Political
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.187, Pan Macmillan

It gave me a strange feeling, and the rest of that night I didn’t say much, but merely sat there and drank, trying to decide if I was getting older and wiser, or just plain old.

Hunter S. Thompson
Night, Feelings, Getting Older
Hunter S. Thompson (1999). “The Rum Diary: A Novel”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

Goddammit. Yeah, I have. First, there's a huge difference between being arrested and being guilty. Second, see, the law changes and I don't. How I stand vis-à-vis the law at any given moment depends on the law. The law can change from state to state, from nation to nation, from city to city. I guess I have to go by a higher law. How's that? Yeah, I consider myself a road man for the lords of karma.

Hunter S. Thompson
Karma, Men, Law
Interview with John Glassie, www.salon.com. February 4, 2003.

You'd be surprised at the things people will do in order to get their names or pictures in the paper.

Hunter S. Thompson
Order, Names, People
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967”, p.30, Ballantine Books

In the meantime, I would drink, rest, and ponder the meaning of this mob.

Hunter S. Thompson
Drink, Pondering
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Rum Diary: Film Tie-in Edition”, p.142, A&C Black

Don't judge your taco by its price

Hunter S. Thompson
Judging, Tacos

I was not proud of what I had learned but I never doubted that it was worth knowing.

Hunter S. Thompson
Knowing, Proud, Doubted

Ignore that nightmare in the bathroom. Just another ugly refugee from the Love Generation, some doom-struck gimp who couldn't handle the pressure. My attorney has never been able to accept the notion - often espoused by reformed drug abusers and especially popular among those on probation - that you can get a lot higher without drugs than with them. And neither have I, for that matter.

Hunter S. Thompson
Funny, Drug, Generations
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.91, Pan Macmillan

Have an objective to give your bender a theme. For instance, stalking and killing a wild pig with a bowie knife.

Hunter S. Thompson
Pigs, Knives, Giving

Revenge is one of the few things in politics that never gets lost in the mail or written off for a dime on the dollar like losers' campaign debts or pledges to help the Poor.

Hunter S. Thompson
Revenge, Dollars, Dimes
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream”, p.245, Pan Macmillan

All advice can only be a product of the man who gives it.

Hunter S. Thompson
Men, Giving, Advice
Hunter S. Thompson (2014). “The Proud Highway: Rejacketed”, p.124, Bloomsbury Publishing

Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.

Hunter S. Thompson
Motor Racing, Nascar Racing, Drug

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