Should Quotes by Hunter S. Thompson

21 Should quotes by Hunter S. Thompson

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Thompson’s blunt style cuts through pretense, and these twenty‑one excerpts reveal his unique blend of cynicism and advocacy. Readers get a raw, unfiltered view of how he believed people ought to confront chaos.

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I damn well intend to keep on living the way I think I should.

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The Jews don't beleive in Jesus! Why should I?! WHOOOEEEE!!

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They don't hardly make 'em like him any more - but just to be on the safe side, he should be castrated…

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Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be…

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Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body

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And the whole Bush family, from Texas, should be boiled in poisoned oil.

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I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is risky territory…

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It might be a little rough on some people for a while, but I think it's the only way to deal with…

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There is a progression of understanding vis-à-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance --physical, emotional, intellectual and every…

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By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I…

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I'm not a liberal, by the way.I believe I have every right to have guns. I just bought another huge weapon. A…

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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…

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Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like…

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Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body,…

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We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something…

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["Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas"] is a very hard book to translate to film because there's so much interior monologue. The…

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As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun…

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I understand that fear is my friend, but not always. Never turn your back on Fear. It should always be in front…

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In Hong Kong, Dallas, or at home —and regardless of whether or not I have been to bed — breakfast is a…

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Breakfast is a personal ritual that can only be properly observed alone, and in a spirit of genuine excess. The food factor…

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There is a progression of understanding vis-a-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance -- physical, emotional, intellectual and…

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“Cases of champagne and scotch lay broken in the street, and everyone I saw had a bottle. They were screaming and dancing, and in…

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No music + Bad TV = Bad mood & no pages.

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By disgracing and degrading the presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart…

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No one holds command over me. No man. No god. No Prince. What is a claim of age for ones who are immortal? What…

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“The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb grey hairs”

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Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain.

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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…

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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.

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Paranoia is just another mask for ignorance. The truth, when you finally chase it down is almost always far worse than your darkest visions…

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“No doubt they all Got What Was Coming To Them. All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought they could buy Peace and Understanding…

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“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…

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