Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

514 quotes · Journalist, Author

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Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

All Angry Funny Philosophical Spiritual Wise 514 quotes · page 25 of 43

Hunter S. Thompson

Journalist, Author

Angry

“Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times.”

Numbers Dollars Criminals

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Hunter S. Thompson

Journalist, Author

Adventurous

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

Mean Definitions Motorcycle

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Angry

“Sportswriters are a rude and brainless subculture of fascist drunks”

Rude Fascists

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Melancholic

“I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.”

Real Distance

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Angry

“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.”

Believe Real Validation

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Angry

“right' i said. 'but first, we need the car. and after that, the cocaine. and then the tape recorder, for special music, and some acapulco shirts.”

Car Special Tape

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Melancholic

“He had come so far from himself that I don't think he knew who he was anymore.”

Thinking

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Funny

“A word to the wise is infuriating.”

Wise Communication

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Angry

“Things are no longer what they seem to be. My telephones are haunted, and animals whisper at me from unseen places.”

Animal Unseen Telephones

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Philosophical

“Because the writer must be a participant in the scene, while he's writing it — or at least taping it, or even sketching it. Or all three. Probably the closest analogy to the ideal would be a film director/producer who writes his own scripts, does his own camera work and somehow manages to film himself in action, as the protagonist or at least a main character.”

Writing Character Cameras

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Philosophical

“If you get people asking the wrong questions, you don't have to worry about the answers.”

People Worry

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Funny

“You can't hoard fun. It has no shelf life.”

Fun Shelves

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