If you get people asking the wrong questions, you don't have to worry about the answers. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
If you have half a story and you don't know the rest, you use what you have to pry the rest out… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
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
I measure my life in pages. If I have pages at dawn, it's been a good night. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
If you consider the great journalists in history, you don't see too many objective journalists on that list. — 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… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Sometimes you're fooled quickly. You want to be fooled. If you can't trust your first impression you're going to have a harder… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
If you work in either journalism or politics... you will be flogged for being right and flogged for being wrong, and it… — 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
What the hell is the sense of trying to hold the Democratic party together, if it's really a party of expediency, something… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
No one HAS to do something he doesn’t want to do for the rest of his life. But then again, if that’s… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I got tired and embarrassed by the constant poverty of those years. I told Doug [ Brinkley] this is really going to… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I still feel needles in my back when I think about all the horrible disasters that would have befallen me if I… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier… — 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
I find that by putting things in writing I can understand them and see them a little more objectively ... For words… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
George McGovern, for all his mistakes... understands what a fantastic monument to all the best instincts of the human race this country… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I believe that the major operating ethic in American society right now, the most universal want and need is to be on… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Nixon was a professional politician, and I despised everything he stood for -- but if he were running for president this year… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
It's the difference between watching a football game between two teams you don't care about, and watching a game where you have… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
On some nights, I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
North Vegas is where you go if you're a hooker turning forty and the syndicate men on the strip decide you're no… — 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 got tired and embarrassed by the constant poverty of those years. I told Doug [ Brinkley] this is really going to be a horrible downer of a book [The Proud Highway] if all it's going to be is about being broke. I didn't like being reminded of desperation at all times.” quote by Hunter S. Thompson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b16/hunter-s-thompson-278_all-time_i-got-tired-and-embarrassed-by-the-const_463350.jpg)
![“["Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas"] is a very hard book to translate to film because there's so much interior monologue. The what if factor. I tried to write it cinematically and let the dialogue carry it but I forgot about the interior monologue. It's kind of hard to show what's going on in the…” quote by Hunter S. Thompson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/398/hunter-s-thompson-278_book_fear-loathing-in-las-vegas-is-a-very-har_780146.jpg)
