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Hunter Thompson

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FOXY BROWN People such as Hunter S. Thompson and the Beats were a huge influence on me, not just in what they w...
COREY TAYLOR Jacki-O proved you far from a fighter/ ... I'm not gonna come at you, I'm
gonna come at your g...
FOXY BROWN February was always the cruellest month for Hunter S Thompson,
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY The proper bookmark for a Hunter Thompson book is a pair of brass knuckles.
JONATHAN HEATT Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON The dawn is killing me off, the fog is on the windows, the [ra]coons have robbed the cans, and down ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Coming of age in a fascist police state will not be a barrel of fun for anybody, much less for peopl...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Im okay Im okay now.
But you really need to listen to me
'cause im telling you the trut...
GERARD WAY Never Tell Me Your Gonna Try To Do Something, To Me, Try Is Another Word For Fail & I Will Not Let Y...
NICHOLAS EDWARD GARDNER i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g...
SIMI GREWAL My dream dinner party guests would be Ethel Kennedy, Truman Capote and Hunter S. Thompson.
DYLAN PENN February was always the cruelest month for Hunter S. Thompson. An avid NFL fan, Hunter traditionally...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY As for LSD, I highly recommend it. We had a fine, wild weekend and no trouble at all. The feeling it...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON The brutal reality of politics would be probably intolerable without drugs.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Okay.
JOHN GREEN Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.
OVID Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.
OVID In the middle of winter it's a very helpful thing for rinsing off your pet or washing your car. In t...
JOHN BAXTER Celebrate your achievements, but never let them sink you into the pool of complacency.
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR February was always the cruelest month for Hunter S. Thompson. An avid NFL fan, Hunter traditionally...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY Over the years, we worked on some promising projects that Hunter could do while never leaving the Fa...
JAY COWAN One of the worst incidents of that era caused no complaints at all: this was a sort of good-natured ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON OK for now. I enjoyed my quick, high-powered visit over there and look forward to a dead-game replay...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challengin...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON I feel like I've known Hunter S. Thompson for most of my life. I first encountered him in 1981, ...
TUCKER CARLSON have i gone mad?
im afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usualy are.
LEWIS CARROLL Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, ther...
OVID Im not your biggest girly girl.
MAGGIE SIFF If you have a Jack Russell terrier you're not gonna let them run and play with your neighbor's cats....
DONNA REYNOLDS One of my first jobs was at the Boston Globe. I worked in the sports department six months a year. W...
WILL MCDONOUGH Nobody can swashbuckle a quick-witted riposte like Emma Thompson. She's a writer, a real writer,...
MERYL STREEP Today's college graduates take IM in the office for granted. If you protect your email systems but i...
ED GOLOD Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, ther...
OVID When you take your step your dream comes true,you see the sky with fluffy clouds you take your breat...
SELENA GóMEZ I'm not a good photographer, not a good writer. I'm a pretty regular person whose insecurity...
SALLY MANN Even now, more than 30 years later, I still judge people on the basis of whether they voted for Jack...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON The waitress had the appearance of a very old hooker who had finally found her place in life
HUNTER S. THOMPSON When I was first pregnant, which was, let's see, in nineteen-eighty-three - I remember wearing a...
HEIDI MURKOFF Let me show you how beautiful life is,
Let me take away all your pain;
Let me rekindle you...
ANAMIKA MISHRA She can't be involved in regular sports, because she couldn't keep up,
JOAN GARRY Never felt lyk im alone bcoz my soul always follows me dats wat make me feel im not alone & I"ll nev...
RAKSHAN BHANDARY I am a regular writer in Mexico, and I always tell the truth in my writings.
ADOLFO AGUILAR ZINSER Deer-hunter, waste not your arrow on the hare
PROVERB You hand fits in mine like its made to be but bear this in mind it was meant to be and im joining up...
ONE DIRECTION Opportunity is ever worth expecting; let your hook be ever hanging ready, the fish will be in the po...
SOURCE UNKNOWN [Thompson made himself the centerpiece of his stories] to show that a regular person could be in the...
DAVID AMRAM You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON A Bullet is a man, from time to time he strays, I compare my life to this, To this I relate. And Im ...
CHRIS CORNELL Someone got killed up here.... It was outside. A tall man. He had one leg longer’n the other. And ...
TERRY PRATCHETT But if you ride your bike a mile away, she is not gonna find you.
LANCE ARMSTRONG What are you gonna do, angel face? Stab me with your eyebrow pencil?
SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS listen, a goad's anything that provokes or incites an enemy
---
let me have a go: cursed d...
JONATHAN STROUD im the one who has to die when its time for me to die. so let me live my life the way i want to
LIL WAYNE You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON You give a regular Yankees lineup those opportunities and you're gonna get your brains beat out. You...
JIM LEYLAND Coach Hedge shouted, 'Let the movie star go, you big ugly cupcake! Or I'm gonna plant my hoof right ...
RICK RIORDAN Let me erase all your despairing thoughts; I hate to see you brooding. Confide your troubles in me, ...
DANI MROUE If You feel hollow, let Me be the one, who fills You up with Love. Let Me free the butterflies withi...
PHILIP T. M. A good vacation for me is going to warm weather. Being able to go outside, in the sun, hit the beach...
ROB GRONKOWSKI If I could get any animal it would be a dolphin. I want one so bad. Me and my mom went swimming with...
MILEY CYRUS We are drifting into some ugly parallels here, and if I'd written this kind of thing two years ago I...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish.
OVID Never let anyone treat you like regular glue. You're glitter glue.
ERMA BOMBECK We do not have federated IM. We firmly believe you need a separate channel from any public IM system...
BOB SHIMP Nobody is gonna love you like you. You're gonna be your best salesman.
T.I. Yes Im young,We Belong,Love Is Sung,By the peaceful Song...Listen Please, You'll fall to your knees,...
NOT YER TYPICAL DORK In sports, there are not a lot of times when you can walk away from the game on your own terms.
JEFF FEAGLES It's trauma you know, scary, machine guns in your face, that's not a good feeling and you never know...
DARREN NORWOOD Let Your name be praised, not mine: let Your work be magnified, not mine. Let Your holy name be bles...
THOMAS KEMPIS Maybe your Gonna be the One that Saves me.
OASIS Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
BIBLE Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.
JESUS CHRIST If you think about your future more then you gonna miss the things in your present.
SANDEEP PRADHAN I'm such a horror geek, comic geek and action figure geek. I'm inspired by so much - from Hu...
COREY TAYLOR i'd rather people hate me for who i am then have them like me for who im not
KURT COBAIN When i get my hands on you, your gonna be N.W.A , not without asswelts.
HOMER SIMPSON They will describe success in fantasy sports as being a highly rational, statistics-driven phenomeno...
DON LEVY When I was studying at the Iowa Writers School, I read a sports writer, Ron Maly, from the Des Moine...
DAVID SHIELDS Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you befo...
MARY JEAN IRON It's just a misfortunate because I think he could've been where Thompson is, had he not got an infec...
BILL PARCELLS I grew up poor in crappy situations... various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and ...
COREY TAYLOR If this is a cover your ass and it costs me a lot of money, I am not gonna be happy. I'm worried. Yo...
JEFF SKILLING Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in you...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.
CLIVE BARKER Let me strip you piece by piece, exactly how you like it. Let me watch you shine through your brutal...
DIANNA HARDY Let me pick up the pieces that lay scattered. Let me mend the heart, that I once with a lie shattere...
PHILIP T. M. I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.
BEN HECHT Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.
ELVIS PRESLEY And when all your faith is gone let it be me, if it's a friend you need let it be me
RAY LAMONTAGNE If you don't respect me you're not gonna get that respect back.
DAVID HASSELHOFF dont read my diary when im gone, ok im going to work now , when you wake up please read my diary, lo...
KURT COBAIN I was tired, I wasn't gonna let anybody steal my purse. I held on for a while until he dragged me an...
BETTY RITCHIE To make real money as a music,movie or sports professional,let one of your eyes be on your field of ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Hey... you gonna ignore me like that?
...

Forever?
...

You gonna rej...
DEYTH BANGER A hunter doesn't mistake the feeling that demons are around. It moves down your spine and chills you...
M.R. MERRICK Sorry dude, but we're in a boxing match and you went against your word and tried to make me look...
DUSTIN DIAMOND We try not to tip our hand as to what it's gonna be. Sometimes you want to bait 'em, let them think ...
CHARLIE WEIS Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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Hell no!"
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HUNTER S. THOMPSON I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter aci...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Good people drink good beer.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics ar...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Richard Nixon was a criminally insane Monster - Bill Clinton is a black-hearted Swine of a friend.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON I felt a little guilty about jangling the poor bugger's brains with that evil fantasy. But what the ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusi...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness ... Fear and Loathing ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered f...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON It never got weird enough for me.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Even now, more than 30 years later, I still judge people on the basis of whether they voted for Jack...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON was doldrums time.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Be a beachcomber, a Parisian wino, an Italian pimp, or a Danish pervert; but stay away from the Arme...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Who are these people? These faces? Where did they come from? They look like caricatures of used car ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON So this is how the world works, all energy flows according to the whims of the great magnet.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON So much for Objective Journalism. Don't bother to look for it here--not under any byline of mine; or...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON I agreed. By this time the drink was beginning to cut the acid and my hallucinations were down to a ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON On the way down the hill we walked three abreast in the cobblestone street, drunk and laughing and t...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON No doubt they all Got What Was Coming To Them. All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstanc...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON 1) Never trust a cop in a raincoat.
2) Beware of enthusiasm and of love, both are temporary and...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name.

Remembered line from a long-
HUNTER S. THOMPSON The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON It is Autumn, as you know, and things are beginning to die. It is so wonderful to be out in the cris...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON and the sad notes floated out to the
patio and hung in the trees like birds too tired to fly
HUNTER S. THOMPSON I bought a small bottle of beer for fifteen cents and sat on a bench in the clearing, feeling like a...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years p...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Those of us who have been up all night were in no mood for coffee and donuts. We wanted strong drink...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON We are all wired into a survival trip now. No more of the speed that fueled that 60's. That was the ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pim...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Fear is just another word for ignorance
HUNTER S. THOMPSON I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Some may never live, but the crazy never die
HUNTER S. THOMPSON We were warriors then, and our tribe was strong like a river
HUNTER S. THOMPSON This was the fatal flaw in Tim Leary's trip. He crashed around America selling "conciousness expansi...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Still humping the American Dream
HUNTER S. THOMPSON The possibility of physical and mental collapse is now very real. No sympathy for the Devil, keep th...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON