10 Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
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Hunter S. Thompson - (18 July 1937 – 20 February 2005) was an American journalist and author, 
famous for his novel “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas”. He is credited as the creator of Gonzo journalism, a style of reporting where reporters involve themselves in the action to such a degree that they become the central figures of their stories.
1. “We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of
high-powered blotter acid, a saltshaker half-full of cocaine and a whole multicolored collection of uppers, downers, laughers, screamers . . . Also, a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge and I knew we’d get into that rotten stuff pretty soon . . .”
—Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, 1971
2. The Sixties were an era of extreme reality. I miss the smell of tear gas. I miss the fear of getting beaten.”
—Independent on Sunday, October 12, 1997
3. “Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow confines of most men’s reality. Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of ‘the rat race’ is not yet final.”
—The Great Shark Hunt, 1979
4. “If I’d written the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people—including me—would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.”
—Rolling Stone, February 15, 1973
5. “I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes.”
—Speech, University of Colorado, 1977
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