Curated Quotations

Hunter S. Thompson

Quotations

  • “If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.” -Hunter S. Thompson

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

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  • “In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.” -Hunter S. Thompson

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  • “The trouble with Nixon is that he’s a serious politics junkie. He’s totally hooked and like any other junkie, he’s a bummer to have around, especially as President.” -Hunter S. Thompson

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  • “The person who doesn’t scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.” -Hunter S. Thompson

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  • “The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.” -Hunter S. Thompson

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  • “Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.” -Hunter S. Thompson

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  • “The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.” -Hunter S. Thompson

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  • “It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.” -Hunter S. Thompson

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  • “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

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  • “The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.” -Hunter S. Thompson

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

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  • “Politics is the art of controlling your environment.” -Hunter S. Thompson

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