Hunter S. Thompson Quotes about Reality

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I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination.

I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination.

Hunter S. Thompson

Funny Life, Reality, Long

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

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

Hunter S. Thompson

Reality, Drug, Would Be

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.

I haven't found a drug yet that can get you anywhere near as high as a sitting at a desk writing, trying to imagine a story no matter how bizarre it is, [or] going out and getting into the weirdness of reality and doing a little time on the Proud Highway.

Hunter S. Thompson

Writing, Reality, Drug

Hunter S. Thompson, Beef Torrey, Kevin Simonson (2008). “Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson”, p.97, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have to know the material you're writing about before you alter it.

Hunter S. Thompson

Writing, Artist, Reality

"Depp to star in ‘Rum Diary’". Associated Press Interview, www.today.com. November 12, 2003.

Reality itself is too twisted.

Hunter S. Thompson

Reality, Twisted

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

Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.

Hunter S. Thompson

Writing, Artist, Reality

Richard Nixon was an evil man - evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency.

Hunter S. Thompson

Believe, Reality, Men

Hunter S. Thompson, Jann Wenner (2012). “Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson”, p.428, Simon and Schuster