Journalism, to me, is just another drug - a free ride to scenes I'd probably miss if I stayed straight. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Sex, drugs, and insanity have always worked for me, but I wouldn't recommend them for everyone. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The brutal reality of politics would be probably intolerable without drugs. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The mind and body must be subjected to extreme stimulus, by means of drugs and music. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs. Reality itself is too twisted. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The mind & body must be subjected to extreme stimulus, by means of drugs & music. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
It drops us into a vigorous current, a constant state of misguided control. The doomed generation takes a final step forward, ignoring… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
It might be a little rough on some people for a while, but I think it's the only way to deal with… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“One of the things you learn, after years of dealing with drug people, is that everything is serious. You can turn your… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
"Drugs" are not necessarily narcotics. The narcotic is one type of drug and coffee is a drug... booze is a drug... many… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I haven't found a drug yet that can get you anywhere near as high as a sitting at a desk writing, trying… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
How long can we maintain? I wonder. How long before one of us starts raving and jabbering at this boy? What will… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
[Polo Is My Life] is what's called a sex book - you know, sex, drugs and rock and roll. It's about the… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Ignore that nightmare in the bathroom. Just another ugly refugee from the Love Generation, some doom-struck gimp who couldn't handle the pressure.… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Hallucinations are bad enough. But after awhile you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“I haven't found a drug yet that can get you anywhere near as high as sitting at a desk writing.” — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“There was also the fact that sending a penniless writer to get $135 worth of beer was — as Khrushchev said of Nixon —… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share
“Cases of champagne and scotch lay broken in the street, and everyone I saw had a bottle. They were screaming and dancing, and in… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share
By disgracing and degrading the presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share
No one holds command over me. No man. No god. No Prince. What is a claim of age for ones who are immortal? What… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share
“The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb grey hairs” — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share
Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share
If we get chased out of Iraq with our tail between our legs, that will be the fifth consecutive Third-world country with no hint… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share
At age 22 I set what I insist is an all-time record for distance hitchhiking in Bermuda shorts: 3,700 miles in three weeks. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share
Paranoia is just another mask for ignorance. The truth, when you finally chase it down is almost always far worse than your darkest visions… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share
“No doubt they all Got What Was Coming To Them. All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought they could buy Peace and Understanding… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share
“For several months they'd been drifting toward political involvement, but the picture was hazy and one of the most confusing elements was their geographical… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share
He wandered into the Newsroom and asked for a job the same way he’d walk into a barbershop and ask for a haircut, and… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share
There's no point in getting into politics at all unless you plan to lash things around. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share
There’s a lot of things wrong with this country, but one of the few things still right with it is that a man can… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share
![“I haven't found a drug yet that can get you anywhere near as high as a sitting at a desk writing, trying to imagine a story no matter how bizarre it is, [or] going out and getting into the weirdness of reality and doing a little time on the Proud Highway.” quote by Hunter S. Thompson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/79f/hunter-s-thompson-278_bizarre_i-haven-t-found-a-drug-yet-that-can-get_1679668.jpg)
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