Hunter S. Thompson Quotes - Page 12

• A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long.

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  Epic, Men, Long

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Rum Diary: Film Tie-in Edition”, p.47, A&C Black

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• When you push a car off a cliff and blow it up, be sure to roll the windows down to avoid shrapnel. Also, strip the license plate so you're not billed for the cleanup.

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  Blow, Car, Cliffs

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.378, Pan Macmillan

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• The first time I managed to pick up a basketball I knew I was destined to lead the UK to another National championship. ... Even now, so many years later, I still believe Kentucky will go undefeated in March & win everything.

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  Inspirational, Basketball, Believe

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• The streets of every city in America are filled with men who would pay all the money they could lay their hands on to be transformed, even for a day, into hairy, hard-fisted brutes who walk all over cops, extort drinks from terrified bartenders and roar out of town on big motorcycles after raping the banker's daughter.

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  Daughter, Men, Hands

  "Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs". Book by Hunter S. Thompson, 1966.

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• En los términos de nuestra Gran Sociedad, los Ángeles del Infierno y los de su calaña son perdedores: desertores, fracasados y descontentos. Los Ángeles del Infierno no son visionarios, sino incondicionales, y si son los precursores o la vanguardia de algo, no es de la "revolución moral" de moda en los campus universitarios, sino de una legión en rápido crecimiento de jóvenes desempleados cuya energía sin explotar encontrará inevitablemente el mismo tipo de salida destructiva que "forajidos" como los Ángeles del Infierno llevan años encontrando.

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  Angel, College, Years

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• Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have to know the material you're writing about before you alter it.

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  Writing, Artist, Reality

  "Depp to star in ‘Rum Diary’". Associated Press Interview, www.today.com. November 12, 2003.

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• My life has been the polar opposite of safe, but I am proud of it and so is my son, and that is good enough for me. I would do it all over again without changing the beat, although I have never recommended it to others. That would be cruel and irresponsible and wrong, I think, and I am none of those things.

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  Son, Thinking, Opposites

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). "El reino del miedo: secretos repugnantes de un niño de la F", p.22, Simon and Schuster.

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• Sex, drugs, and insanity have always worked for me, but I wouldn't recommend them for everyone.

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  Sex, Hippie, Insanity

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• The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. And I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon. Probably at the next gas station.

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  Men, Vegas, Fear And Loathing

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.531, Simon and Schuster

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• The Jews don't beleive in Jesus! Why should I?! WHOOOEEEE!!

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  Jesus, Religion, Should

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• I felt like a monster reincarnation of Horatio Alger: A man on the move, and just sick enough to be totally confident.

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  Crazy, Moving, Men

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.201, Vintage

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• Los aficionados al fútbol comparten un lenguaje universal que atraviesa muchas culturas y muchos tipos de personalidad. Un aficionado serio nunca está solo. Somos legión, y el fútbol es a menudo lo único que tenemos en común.

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  Football, Cutting, Personality

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward S”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

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• It drops us into a vigorous current, a constant state of misguided control. The doomed generation takes a final step forward, ignoring all the signs that state the obvious, and leaps into a trip no drug known to man could ever encompass.

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  Men, Drug, Finals

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• Debemos aguantar este extraño torpedo hasta el final.

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  Life, Strange, Ends

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• "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.

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  Coffee, Drug, Type

  Fuente: www.rollingstone.com

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• Así es la vida en Big Sur. Esperar el correo, observar los leones marinos en el oleaje o los cargueros en el horizonte, sentarse en las bañeras de Hot Springs, de vez en cuando un poco de bebida - y, la mayor parte del tiempo, trabajar en lo que sea que hayas venido aquí a trabajar, ya sea pintar, escribir, jardinería o el simple arte de vivir tu propia vida.

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  Arte, Primavera, Escritura

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967”, p.276, Ballantine Books

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• North Vegas es donde vas si eres una prostituta que cumple cuarenta años y los hombres del sindicato del striptease deciden que ya no sirves para hacer negocio con los grandes apostadores.

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  Men, Vegas, Syndicate

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.543, Simon and Schuster

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• Just the other day the AP wire had a story about a man from Arkansas who entered some kind of contest and won a two-week vacation--all expenses paid--wherever he wanted to go. Any place in the world: Mongolia, Easter Island, the Turkish Riviera . . . but his choice was Salt Lake City, and that's where he went. Is this man a registered voter? Has he come to grips with the issues? Has he bathed in the blood of the lamb?

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  Easter, Men, Vacation

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72”, p.168, Simon and Schuster

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• How long can we maintain? I wonder. How long before one of us starts raving and jabbering at this boy? What will he think then? This same lonely desert was the last known home of the Manson family. Will he make that grim connection.

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  Lonely, Home, Boys

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.9, Vintage

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• One of the few ways I can almost be certain I'll understand something is by sitting down and writing about it. Because by forcing yourself to write about it and putting it down in words, you can't avoid having your say on the subject. You might be wrong, but you have to think about it very intensely to write about it.

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  Writing, Thinking, Sitting Down

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• I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my instincts were right.

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  Thinking, Long, Fear And Loathing

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Rum Diary: A Novel”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and - in spite of True Romance magazines - we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way.

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  Romance, Looks, Magazines

  Hunter S. Thompson (2014). “The Proud Highway: Rejacketed”, p.215, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• En mi lápida grabarán: "NUNCA FUE LO SUFICIENTE DE RÁPIDO PARA MÍ".

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  Tombstone, Motorcycle, Enough

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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• Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer... in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my friend.

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  Enemy, My Friends, Bits

  Hunter S. Thompson, Beef Torrey, Kevin Simonson (2008). “Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson”, p.148, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The association of motorcycles with LSD is no accident of publicity. They are both a means to an end, to the place of definitions.

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  Mean, Motorcycle, Definitions

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream”, p.90, Pan Macmillan

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