Paranoia is just another mask for ignorance. The truth, when you finally chase it down is almost always far worse than your… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile - and the rest of us are fucked until we can… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my instincts were right. I shared a… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The Sixties were an era of extreme reality. I miss the smell of tear gas. I miss the fear of getting beaten. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“Autumn is always a time of Fear and Greed and Hoarding for the winter coming on. Debt collectors are active on old… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
["Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas"] is a very hard book to translate to film because there's so much interior monologue. The… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Nixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot - and it's only a question of time before all that… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot - and it's only a question of time before all that… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The waitress had the appearance of a very old hooker who had finally found her place in life — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I understand that fear is my friend, but not always. Never turn your back on Fear. It should always be in front… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“He never stooped to trying to sell us on stupidities about "electability" and "realism," or the pitfalls of "purity." Instead, he stared… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“People who claim to know jackrabbits will tell you they are primarily motivated by Fear, Stupidity, and Craziness. But I have spent… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Fear is a healthy instinct, not a sign of weakness. It is a natural self-defense mechanism that is common to felines, wolves,… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“I feel The Fear coming on, and the only cure for that is to chew up a fat black wad of blood-opium… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
All golfers fear the one-iron. It has no angle, no loft. The one-iron is a confidence-crusher, a fear trip, an almost guarantee… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
We came out here to find the American Dream, and now that we're right in the vortex you want to quit ...… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear—fear of war, fear of poverty, fear of random terrorism, fear of… — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb grey hairs” — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image