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Hunter Thompson

Happy,' I muttered, trying to...

Happy,' I muttered, trying to pin the word down. But it is one of those words, like Love, that I have never quite understood. Most people who deal in words don't have much faith in them and I am no exception Ђ' especially the big ones like Happy and Love and Honest and Strong. They are too elusive and far to relative when you compare them to sharp, mean little words like Punk and Cheap and Phony. I feel at home with these, because they're scrawny and easy to pin, but the big ones are tough and it takes either a pr

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Hunter Thompson

A cap of good acid costs five ...

A cap of good acid costs five dollars and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony with God singing solo and Holy Ghost on drums.

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Hunter Thompson

Every man is the sum total of ...

Every man is the sum total of his reactions to experience. As your experiences differ and multiply, you become a different man, and hence your perspective changes. This goes on and on. Every reaction is a learning process; every significant experience alters your perspective.

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Hunter Thompson

A sense of humor is the main m...

A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.

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Hunter Thompson

That's where Time magazine liv...

That's where Time magazine lives ... way out there on the puzzled, masturbating edge, peering through the keyhole and selling what they see to the big wide world of chamber of commerce voyeurs who support the public prints.

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Hunter Thompson

Most of my stuff is just a ser...

Most of my stuff is just a series of false leads. I'll approach a story as a subject and then make a whole bunch of different runs at the lead. They're all good writing but they don't connect. So I end up having to string leads together.

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Hunter Thompson

What passed for society was a ...

What passed for society was a loud, giddy whirl of thieves and pretentious hustlers, a dull sideshow full of quacks and clowns and philistines with gimp mentalities.

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Hunter Thompson

I believe that the major opera...

I believe that the major operating ethic in American society right now, the most universal want and need is to be on TV. I've been on TV. I could be on TV all the time if I wanted to. But most people will never get on TV. It has to be a real breakthrough for them. And trouble is, people will do almost anything to get on it. You know, confess to crimes they haven't committed. You don't exist unless you're on TV. Yeah, it's a validation process.

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Hunter Thompson

The first paragraph. The last ...

The first paragraph. The last paragraph. That's where the story is going and how it's going to end. Or else you'll go off in a hundred different directions.

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Hunter Thompson

Ah, fortune and fame shall fol...

Ah, fortune and fame shall follow me ... and I shall dwell in the world of the chosen for a few moments of fleeting ecstasy; ere the seven burly lads turn into creditors and hustle me off to debtors' prison at last.

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Hunter Thompson

Freedom, Truth, Honour В- you ...

Freedom, Truth, Honour В- you could rattle off a hundred such words and behind every one of them would gather a thousand punks, pompous little farts, waving the banner with one hand and reaching under the table with the other.

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Hunter Thompson

I still feel needles in my bac...

I still feel needles in my back when I think about all the horrible disasters that would have befallen me if I had permanently moved to San Francisco and rented a big house, joined the company dole, become national-affairs editor for some upstart magazineВ-that was the plan around 1967. But that would have meant going to work on a regular basis, like nine to five, with an officeВ-I had to pull out.

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Hunter Thompson

They say that 'he who flies h...

They say that 'he who flies highest, falls farthest' В- and who am I to argue? But we can't forget that 'he who doesn't flap his wings, never flies at all.

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Hunter Thompson

Platitudes are safe, because t...

Platitudes are safe, because they're easy to wink at, but truth is something else again.

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Hunter Thompson

Why are we seeing George Bush ...

Why are we seeing George Bush on TV every two hours for nine or ten days at a time, like some kind of mutated Mr. Rogers clone? Something is dangerously wrong in any country where a monumentally-failed backwoods politician can scare our national TV networks so totally that they will give him anything he wants.

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Hunter Thompson

I had a truly horrible dream l...

I had a truly horrible dream last night ... [Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mike Tyson and I] were on our way to a TV studio for a debate about his long-time working friendship with the powerful Bush family from Texas and how it might affect the next Bush presidency when The Terminator seizes power in Sacramento and tries to hand over the state's 54 electoral votes by election day in 2004. That is the basic plan behind Schwarzenegger running. He doesn't want to be Governor, he just wants the electoral votes to go to Bush this

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Hunter Thompson

Once I establish credit, I may...

Once I establish credit, I may be able to function. A man needs credit. Especially when he has no money.

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Hunter Thompson

Not even the foulest atrocitie...

Not even the foulest atrocities of Adolf Hitler ever shocked me so badly as these Abu Ghraib photographs did.

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Hunter Thompson

I couldn't imagine, and I don'...

I couldn't imagine, and I don't say this with any pride, but I really couldn't imagine writing without a desperate deadline.

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Hunter Thompson

I have never felt comfortable ...

I have never felt comfortable around people who talk about their feelings for Jesus, or any other deity for that matter, because they are usually none too bright... Or maybe 'stupid' is a better way of saying it; but I have never seen much point in getting heavy with either stupid people or Jesus freaks, just as long as they don't bother me. In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be le

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