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I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes.

I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes.

Hunter S. Thompson
Epic, Hunters, Way
Speech given to the University of Colorado Student Union, November 1, 1977.

Houston is a cruel, crazy town on a filthy river in East Texas with no zoning laws and a culture of sex, money and violence. It's a shabby, sprawling metropolis ruled by brazen women, crooked cops and super-rich pansexual cowboys who live by the code of the West -- which can mean just about anything you need it to mean, in a pinch.

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Sex, Crazy, Mean

Good people drink good beer.

Hunter S. Thompson
Life, Drinking, Beer

Sane is rich and powerful. Insane is wrong and poor and weak. The rich are free, the poor are put in cages. Res Ipsa Loquitur, amen. Mahalo.

Hunter S. Thompson
Powerful, Insane, Cages
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

Get out of control, but appear under control. It?s not bad to alarm other people, though ? it?s good for them.

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Adventure, People, Alarms

In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile.

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Fun, Pigs, Hunters
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.98, Pan Macmillan

I didn't know Johnny Depp could act until he played me.

Hunter S. Thompson
Knows

A word to the wise is infuriating.

Hunter S. Thompson
Wise, Communication, Epic

Every deadline was a crisis … No doubt it has something to do with a deep-seated personality defect, or maybe a kink in whatever blood vessel leads into the pineal gland … On the other hand, it might easily be something as simple and basically perverse as whatever instinct it is that causes a jackrabbit to wait until the last possible second to dart across the road in front of a speeding car.

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Simple, Blood, Hands
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.186, Pan Macmillan

And the whole Bush family, from Texas, should be boiled in poisoned oil.

Hunter S. Thompson
Texas, Oil, Should

The possibility of physical and mental collapse is very real now... but collapse is out of the question; as a solution or even a cheap alternative, it is unacceptable. No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind.

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Real, Vegas, Mind
"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream".

Ah, lives there a man with soul so dead, who never to himself hath said As he hunched and rolled in his comfortable bed: To hell with the rent . . . I'll drink instead!

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Men, Soul, Bed

We are all wired into a survival trip, now.

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Survival, Fear And Loathing, Loathing
Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.175, Vintage

If Sunday is the Lord's day, then Saturday belongs to the Devil. It is the only night of the week when he gives out Free passes to the Late show at the Too Much Fun Club.

Hunter S. Thompson
Fun, Sunday, Night
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.63, Pan Macmillan

Turn the goddam music up! My heart feels like an alligator!

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Heart, Alligators, Turns

A man has to BE something; he has to matter.

Hunter S. Thompson
Men, Matter
Hunter S. Thompson (2014). “The Proud Highway: Rejacketed”, p.125, Bloomsbury Publishing

I wasn't trying to be an outlaw writer. I never heard of that term; somebody else made it up. But we were all outside the law: Kerouac, Miller, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Kesey; I didn't have a gauge as to who was the worst outlaw. I just recognized allies: my people.

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

There was madness in any direction, at any hour. You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning.

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Winning, Vegas, Fear And Loathing
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.93, Pan Macmillan

He had come so far from himself that I don't think he knew who he was anymore.

Hunter S. Thompson
Thinking
Hunter S. Thompson (1999). “The Rum Diary: A Novel”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow confines of most men's reality. 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.

Hunter S. Thompson
Love, Hero, Reality
1969 'Those Daring Young Men In Their Flying Machines Ain't What They Used To Be!', in Pageant, Sep.

The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time, in the United States or any other country. Make no mistake about it: We are At War now & with somebody & and we will stay At War with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives.

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Country, War, Mistake
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

The mind & body must be subjected to extreme stimulus, by means of drugs & music.

Hunter S. Thompson
Mean, Drug, Mind
"Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist".

George McGovern, for all his mistakes... understands what a fantastic monument to all the best instincts of the human race this country might have been, if we could have kept it out of the hands of greedy little hustlers like Richard Nixon.

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Country, Mistake, Race
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72”, p.389, Simon and Schuster

Women are terrified of being raped, but somewhere in the back of the womb there is one rebellious nerve end that tingles with curiosity whenever the word is mentioned.

Hunter S. Thompson
Curiosity, Nerves, Rebellious
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga: A Strange and Terrible Saga”, p.187, Ballantine Books

You can’t play city rules when you live in a jungle.

Hunter S. Thompson
Cities, Play, Jungle
Hunter S. Thompson (2014). “The Proud Highway: Rejacketed”, p.264, Bloomsbury Publishing

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