Hunter S. Thompson Quotes - Page 2

American - Journalist July 18, 1937 - February 20, 2005

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

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Good Man Fool Wise

One thing I have learned in my painful career as a gambler is that bragging when you get lucky and win a few games will plunge you into gloom and unacceptable beatings very soon. It happens every time.

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Time You Win Games

Some may never live, but the crazy never die.

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Live Crazy Die Never May

Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.

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Politics Long Journalism American

The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it.

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World Weird Perfect Place

Richard Nixon was an evil man - evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency.

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Man Believe Devil Evil

You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.

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Me You Care Better

With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.

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Results Race Journalism Stock Market

If Sunday is the Lord's day, then Saturday belongs to the Devil. It is the only night of the week when he gives out Free passes to the Late show at the Too Much Fun Club.

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Day Night Devil Fun

Without gambling, I would not exist.

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Gambling Without Exist Would

If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.

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Crazy You Up Get

The best thing about the Kentucky Derby is that it is only two minutes long. It is the quickest event in sports, except for Sumo-wrestling & Mike Tyson fights. Maybe Drag-racing is quicker, but I have never been attracted to it.

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Best Sports Long Never

I am more than just a serious basketball fan. I am a life-long addict. I was addicted from birth, in fact, because I was born in Kentucky and I learned, early on, that Habitual Domination was a natural way of life.

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Life I Am Born Way

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

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Sea Food Law Always

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

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Truth Truth Is Never Hours

The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.

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Power Only Difference Up

The Hell's Angels try not to do anything halfway, and anyone who deals in extremes is bound to cause trouble, whether he means to or not. This, along with a belief in total retaliation for any offense or insult, is what makes the Hell's Angels unmanageable for the police and morbidly fascinating to the general public.

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Police Hell Insult Angels

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.

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Men Race Run Human

Nixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear and despise.

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Fear Character World Dark

I've already become a mastodon in print - I don't see a consciousness for my kind of journalism.

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Journalism See Become Kind

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

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Ride Chance Buy Take Ticket

As long as I'm learning something, I figure I'm OK - it's a decent day.

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Learning Day Long Something

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

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Beauty Moment Must Triumph

There is no fool like a careless gambler who starts taking victory for granted.

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Fool Victory Like Careless

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot - and it's only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.

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Fear Time Mind Stupid

'Crazy' is a term of art; 'Insane' is a term of law. Remember that, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble.

Hunter S. Thompson

Yourself Art Crazy You

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