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

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

Hunter S. Thompson
Bridges, Fiction, Journalism

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

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

Journalism is "a low trade and a habit worse than heroin, a strange seedy world of misfits and drunkards and failures.

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

Journalism, to me, is just another drug - a free ride to scenes I'd probably miss if I stayed straight.

Hunter S. Thompson
Missing, Drug, Journalism
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.223, Simon and Schuster

If you consider the great journalists in history, you don't see too many objective journalists on that list.

Hunter S. Thompson
Lists, Journalism, Journalist
Hunter S. Thompson, Beef Torrey, Kevin Simonson (2008). “Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

I've already become a mastodon in print - I don't see a consciousness for my kind of journalism.

Hunter S. Thompson
Journalism, Kind, Consciousness

I don't think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It's lonely out here.

Hunter S. Thompson
Lonely, Thinking, Journalism
Hunter S. Thompson, Beef Torrey, Kevin Simonson (2008). “Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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