Hunter S. Thompson
(July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) was an American journalist and author. He is credited as the creator of gonzo journalism, a style of reporting which blurs distinctions between author and subject, fiction and nonfiction.
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Hunter S. Thompson (Doctor Gonzo) Quotes:
A word to the wise is infuriating.
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America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with
all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else
in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
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Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime
in Progress is not a happy prospect.
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I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but
they've always worked for me.
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I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
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I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always
worked for me.
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If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people
- including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today.
Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of
professional journalism.
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It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline.
Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.
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No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and
no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel
than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached
to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal
defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times.
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That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us.
He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as
anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.
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The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people
who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.
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The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic
hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's
also a negative side.
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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.
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The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as
some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism
industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good
men die like dogs, for no good reason.
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There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths
of an ether binge.
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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug,
especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.
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