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“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.”
-- Hunter S. Thompson

#Music #Sports #Hunting
“"Drugs" are not necessarily narcotics. The narcotic is one type of drug and coffee is a drug... booze is a drug... many drugs.... They're all around us.”
-- Hunter S. Thompson

#Coffee #Drug #Type
“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.”
-- Hunter S. Thompson

#Gun #Two #America
“I think it might be better to have the President sort of like the King of England - or the Queen - and have the real business of the presidency conducted by ... a city manager-type, a Prime Minister, somebody who's directly answerable to Congress, rather than a person who moves all his friends into the White House and does whatever he wants for four years.”
-- Hunter S. Thompson

#Kings #Queens #Real
“I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.”
-- Hunter S. Thompson

#Heart #Mind #Looks
“If you have half a story and you don't know the rest, you use what you have to pry the rest out of someone.”
-- Hunter S. Thompson

#Stories #Use #Half
“The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.”
-- Hunter S. Thompson

#America #Spirals #Lows
“"Perceive" is the word that became in the '72 campaign what "charisma" was for the 1960, '64 and even the '68 campaigns. "Perceive" is the new key word. When you say perceive you imply the difference between what the candidate is and the way the public or the voters see him.”
-- Hunter S. Thompson

#Keys #Differences #Campaigns
“For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.”
-- Hunter S. Thompson

#Vegas #Earth #Towns
“I've been studying drugs for years.”
-- Hunter S. Thompson

#Years #Drug #Study
“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”
-- Hunter S. Thompson

#Life #Death #Suicide
“It's the difference between watching a football game between two teams you don't care about, and watching a game where you have some kind of personal identity with one of the teams, if only a huge bet.”
-- Hunter S. Thompson

#Football #Team #Games
“Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.”
-- Hunter S. Thompson

#Life #Fun #Epic
“It's much more fun to run a political campaign than it is to be the candidate.”
-- Hunter S. Thompson

#Running #Fun #Political
“It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.”
-- Hunter S. Thompson

#Choices #Conformity #Accepting
“You almost have to be a rock star to generate the kind of fever you need to survive in American politics.”
-- Hunter S. Thompson

#Stars #Rocks #Needs
“For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.”
-- Hunter S. Thompson

#Beauty #Soul #Triumph
“The McGovern/McCarthy type candidacies have disappointed too many people, because of a disillusionment with the candidates themselves.”
-- Hunter S. Thompson

#People #Type #Disillusionment
“Writing is the flip side of sex - it's good only when it's over.”
-- Hunter S. Thompson

#Sex #Writing #Flip
“I think you either have to have a very strong decisive person at the top or else a really brilliant staff command.”
-- Hunter S. Thompson

#Strong #Thinking #Brilliant
“Call on God, but row away from the rocks.”
-- Hunter S. Thompson

#Humor #Rocks
“What the hell is the sense of trying to hold the Democratic party together, if it's really a party of expediency, something that's put together every four years?”
-- Hunter S. Thompson

#Party #Years #Trying
“It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.”
-- Hunter S. Thompson

#Men #Obvious #Rhythm
“and he would probably not agree with my conviction that a sense of humor is the main measure of sanity. But who can say for sure? Humor is a very private thing.”
-- Hunter S. Thompson

#Sense Of Humor #Sanity #Conviction
“Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.”
-- Hunter S. Thompson

#Beautiful #Graffiti #Faces
“Nixon was a professional politician, and I despised everything he stood for -- but if he were running for president this year against the evil Bush-Cheney gang, I would happily vote for him.”
-- Hunter S. Thompson

#Running #Years #Evil
“Any kind of political campaign that taps the kind of energy that nothing else can reach would generate a tremendous high for everybody involved in it.”
-- Hunter S. Thompson

#Political #Energy #Campaigns
“Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.”
-- Hunter S. Thompson

#Sex #Epic #Love Is
“There's no point in getting into politics at all unless you plan to lash things around.”
-- Hunter S. Thompson

#Lashes #Plans
“Goddammit. Yeah, I have. First, there's a huge difference between being arrested and being guilty. Second, see, the law changes and I don't. How I stand vis-Ã -vis the law at any given moment depends on the law. The law can change from state to state, from nation to nation, from city to city. I guess I have to go by a higher law. How's that? Yeah, I consider myself a road man for the lords of karma.”
-- Hunter S. Thompson

#Karma #Men #Law

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