Hunter S. Thompson quotes - page 14

The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. (Hunter S. Thompson)
These horrifying digital snapshots of the American dream in action on foreign soil are worse than anything even I could have expected. View quote
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It's come to the point where you almost can't run unless you can cause people to salivate and whip each other with big sticks. You almost have to be a rock star to get the kind of fever you need to survive in American politics. View quote
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There was something... total... something very undermining about the McGovern defeat... There was a very unexplained kind of... ominous quality to it... weeping chaos. View quote
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I've found, during my admittedly limited experience in political reporting, that power & honesty very rarely coincide. View quote
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The whole thing sucks. It was wrong from the start, and it is getting wronger by the hour. View quote
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The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time, in the United States or any other country. View quote
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No candidate will risk being linked with a "suspected" addict - but a registered, admitted addict is a whole different thing. View quote
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I looked out at the ships and the sea beyond them, and I felt crazy to be free with a whole day ahead of me. Then I realized I would sleep most of the day, and my excitement disappeared. View quote
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It is hard to ignore the prima facie dumbness that got us bogged down in this nasty war in the first place. View quote
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Nobody really cared about the countless criminal addictions that preyed on me day and night - just as long as I was not in denial. (Hunter S. Thompson)
The TV business is uglier than most things. View quote
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The kids are turned off from politics, they say. Most of 'em don't even want to hear about it. View quote
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Like most of the others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser. I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my instincts were right. View quote
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It is all well and good for children and acid freaks to still believe in Santa Claus - but it is still a profoundly morbid day for us working professionals. View quote
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Richard Nixon has never been one of my favorite people anyway. View quote
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Most people who deal in words don't have much faith in them and I am no exception - especially the big ones like Happy and Love and Honest and Strong. View quote
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The hippies, who had never really believed they were the wave of the future anyway, saw the election results as brutal confirmation of the futility of fighting the establishment on its own terms. View quote
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The hard core, the outlaw elite, were the Hell's Angels... View quote
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I take no pleasure in being Right in my dark predictions about the fate of our military intervention in the heart of the Muslim world. View quote
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What the hell is going on here? How could this once-proud nation have changed so much, so drastically, in only a little more than two years. (Hunter S. Thompson)
Poor bastard. Wait 'till he sees the bats. View quote
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I felt a little guilty about jangling the poor bugger's brains with that evil fantasy. But what the hell? Anybody who wanders around the world saying, "Hell yes, I'm from Texas," deserves whatever happens to him. View quote
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He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master. View quote
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live out where the real winds blow-to sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky, and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind except falling in love and not getting arrested... Res ipsa loquitur. Let the good times roll. View quote
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