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Category: Hunter S. Thompson

3 December 2020 Hunter S. Thompson

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

3 December 2020 Hunter S. Thompson

The person who doesn’t scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

3 December 2020 Hunter S. Thompson

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.

3 December 2020 Hunter S. Thompson

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

3 December 2020 Hunter S. Thompson

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.

3 December 2020 Hunter S. Thompson

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

3 December 2020 Hunter S. Thompson

In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

3 December 2020 Hunter S. Thompson

The trouble with Nixon is that he’s a serious politics junkie. He’s totally hooked and like any other junkie, he’s a bummer to have around, especially as President.

3 December 2020 Hunter S. Thompson

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

3 December 2020 Hunter S. Thompson

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.

3 December 2020 Hunter S. Thompson

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.

3 December 2020 Hunter S. Thompson

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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