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Hunter S. Thompson

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Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba....


— Hunter S. Thompson


#humor

Kill the body and the head will die.


— Hunter S. Thompson


#biography #drugs #humor #dreams

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


— Hunter S. Thompson


#politics #family

Life’s journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting ‘Holy shit…what a ride!


— Hunter S. Thompson


#ride #life

Reality itself is too twisted.


— Hunter S. Thompson


#humor

I was glad to be rid of him. He was one of those people who could go to New York and be "fascinating," but here in his own world he was just a cheap functionary, and a dull one at that.


— Hunter S. Thompson


#irritating #poseurs #humor

But from now on let's try to be careful when we're around people I know. You won't sketch them and I won't Mace them. We'll just try to relax and get drunk.


— Hunter S. Thompson


#humor

The prevailing quality of life in America -- by any accepted methods of measuring -- was unarguably freer and more politically open under Nixon than it is today in this evil year of Our Lord 2002.


— Hunter S. Thompson


#politics #life

Though I was careful never to mention it, I began to see a new dimension in everything that happened.


— Hunter S. Thompson


#visionary #inspirational

Las Vegas is the savage heart of the American Dream.


— Hunter S. Thompson


#savage #the-american-dream #dreams






About Hunter S. Thompson

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Thompson severed his ties with the Observer after his editor refused to print his review of Tom Wolfe's 1965 essay collection The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby and he moved to San Francisco immersing himself in the drug and hippie culture that was taking root in the area. invasion of Grenada but would not discuss these experiences until the publication of Kingdom of Fear 20 years later. Do it now: pure Gonzo journalism.

He subsequently joined the United States Air Force before moving into journalism. Hunter Stockton Thompson (July 18 1937 – February 20 2005) was an American author and journalist. The work he remains best known for is Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (1972) a rumination on the failure of the 1960s counterculture movement.

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