“There was also the fact that sending a penniless writer to get $135 worth of beer was — as Khrushchev said of… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I was once arrested with [Allen] Ginsburg. He was a big help to me. He was one of the few people who… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“I am a confused Musician who got sidetracked into this goddamn Word business for so long that I never got back to… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
This is the way life goes in Big Sur. Waiting for the mail, watching the sea-lions in the surf or the freighters… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Because the writer must be a participant in the scene, while he's writing it — or at least taping it, or even… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I’m a word freak. I like words. I’ve always compared writing to music. That’s the way I feel about good paragraphs. When… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I've always considered writing the most hateful kind of work. I suspect it's a bit like fucking - which is fun only… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“Well … yes, and here we go again. But before we get to The Work, as it were, I want to make… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
As things stand now, I am going to be a writer. I'm not sure that I'm going to be a good one… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I couldn't imagine, and I don't say this with any pride, but I really couldn't imagine writing without a desperate deadline. — 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
“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
“I have explained many times that I am, by Profession, a Gambler -- not some jock-sniffing nerd or a hired human squawk-box… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Allen [ Ginsberg] was a particular friend, one of my heroes, really. I knew him almost as long as I've been writing. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Most of my stuff is just a series of false leads. I'll approach a story as a subject and then make a… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“I've always considered writing the most hateful kind of work. I suspect it's a bit like fucking — which is fun only… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“Writing is the flip side of sex - it's only good when it's over.” — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Writing is the flip side of sex - it's good only when it's over. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“I haven't found a drug yet that can get you anywhere near as high as sitting at a desk writing.” — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I haven't found a drug yet that can get you anywhere near as high as a sitting at a desk writing, trying… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer... in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I've always considered writing the most hateful kind of work. I suspect it's a bit like f***ing — which is fun only… — 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
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