"Journalism is "a low trade and a habit……" — Hunter S. Thompson
"Journalism is "a low trade and a habit worse than heroin, a strange seedy world of misfits and drunkards and failures."
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445 Quotes by Hunter S. Thompson
Hunter S. Thompson has 445 quotes on this site.
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Get out of control, but appear under control. It?s not bad to alarm other people, though ? it?s good for…
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Breakfast is a personal ritual that can only be properly observed alone, and in a spirit of genuine excess. The…
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Those of us that had been up all night were in no mood for coffee and donuts, we wanted strong…
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There is an ancient Celtic axiom that says 'Good people drink good beer.' Which is true, then as now. Just…
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Cover a war in a place where you can't drink beer or talk to a woman? Hell no!
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I have always loved marijuana. It has been a source of joy and comfort to me for many years. And…
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They don't hardly make 'em like him any more - but just to be on the safe side, he should…
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In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile.
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We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and - in spite of True Romance magazines - we shall all…
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Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.
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No one holds command over me. No man. No god. No Prince. What is a claim of age for ones…
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Old elephants limp off to the hills to die; old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves to…
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More Drunkards Quotes
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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
— Otto von Bismarck
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There are more old drunkards than old doctors.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Some brewers of Ale and Beere doe put it into their drinke to make it more heady, fit to please…
— Unknown Author
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I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Everything is blurred on what's right and what's wrong ... Sin becomes fine. Start with homosexual behavior and just morph…
— Phil Robertson
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I think a man can keep on drinking for centuries, he'll never die; especially wine or beer...I like drunkards, man,…
— Charles Bukowski
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Then Christ will say to us, 'Come you also! Come you drunkards! Come you weaklings! Come you depraved!' And he…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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If you say, "Would there were no wine" because of the drunkards, then you must say, going on by degrees,…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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All you drunkards: Put down the intoxicating Vanity Metrics.
— Mark Twain
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The account he gives of nurses beats everything that even I know of. This young prophet says that they are…
— Florence Nightingale
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Giant agencies are wobbling like drunkards… the rest of you should be sharpening your knives,
— Dan Wieden
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When we speak to drunkards, worldlings, or any ignorant, unconverted men, we disgrace them as in that condition to the…
— Richard Baxter
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