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
It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it. — 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
Not even the foulest atrocities of Adolf Hitler ever shocked me so badly as these Abu Ghraib photographs did. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
One of the advantages of being dead, I guess, is that somebody else can edit all this. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I learned from # Hemingway that you could be a # writer and get away with it. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
There's no point in getting into politics at all unless you plan to lash things around. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Platitudes are safe, because they're easy to wink at, but truth is something else again. — 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… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The first paragraph. The last paragraph. That's where the story is going and how it's going to end. Or else you'll go… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Richard Nixon looks like a flaming liberal today, compared to a golem like George Bush. Indeed. Where is Richard Nixon now that… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
They say that "he who flies highest, falls farthest" — and who am I to argue? But we can't forget that "he… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Stay naked as much as possible, but do not impose your orgiastic will on others. Don't have sex in the lobby -… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I voted for Ralph Nader in 2000, but I will not make that mistake again. The joke is over for Nader. He… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Never create anything, it will be misinterpreted, it will chain you and follow you for the rest of your life. — 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
He could shake your hand and stab you in the back at the same time. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Once I establish credit, I may be able to function. A man needs credit. Especially when he has no money. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I was never trying, necessarily, to be an outlaw. It was just the place in which I found myself. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Get out of control, but appear under control. It?s not bad to alarm other people, though ? it?s good for them. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Las Vegas makes Reno seem like your friendly neighborhood grocery store. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don't tell them anything. — 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
