Journalism is "a low trade and a habit worse than heroin, a strange seedy world of misfits and drunkards and failures. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Given my calling I had to stumble across people who felt the same way. I was a young reporter. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I've already become a mastodon in print - I don't see a consciousness for my kind of journalism. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism. — 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
Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long. — 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
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
I can't think in terms of journalism without thinking in terms of political ends. Unless there's been a reaction, there's been no… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Gonzo journalism is a style of reporting based on William Faulkner's idea that the best fiction is far more true than any… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The most consistent and ultimately damaging failure of political journalism in America (is that it) has its roots in the clubby/cocktail personal… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“The only way to write honestly about the scene is to be part of it. If there is one quick truism about… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“They would owe most of their success to a curious rape mania that rides on the shoulder of American journalism like some… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective… — 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
I am a writer, a professional journalist with serious credentials in Crime, Craziness, and Politics. I have mingled with dangerous criminals and… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun… — 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
Some people will say that words like scum and rotten are wrong for Objective Journalism -- which is true, but they miss… — 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. But I'm… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“So much for Objective Journalism. Don't bother to look for it here--not under any byline of mine; or anyone else I can… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I don't think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It's lonely out here. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“The daily press is the evil principle of the modern world, and time will only serve to disclose this fact with greater… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“Twenty years on the outlaw circuit have not done much to mellow his view of the press and the world of devious… — 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
