“THE EDGE, there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is the ones who have gone over.” 9. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.”ġ0.
Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. “Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. “Some may never live, but the crazy never die.”ġ1. “When the going gets weird, the weird turn professional.”įear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72 12. “If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.” 14. “Too weird to live, too rare to die!”įear and Loathing in Las Vegas 15.
“I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.” 16. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.”ġ7. “In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. “I was not proud of what I had learned, but I never doubted that it was worth knowing.” Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the ’80’sġ9. Some people get rich and others eat shit and die.” What do you say, for instance, about a generation that has been taught that rain is poison and sex is death? If making love might be fatal and if a cool spring breeze on any summer afternoon can turn a crystal blue lake into a puddle of black poison right in front of your eyes, there is not much left except TV and relentless masturbation. “There are times, however, and this is one of them when even being right feels wrong. Thompson’s quotes, both from his writings and from the man himself.Ģ0. Here’s their selection, in reverse order, of the greatest Hunter S. Happily the vast online book community Goodreads, which has over 20 million avid readers, has helped sort the wheat words from the chaff. Thompson was a man who never shied away from speaking his mind and the internet is littered with his quotes.
But it’s not just in his works that he shares his opinion about life, love and the world at large. This tale of a long weekend road trip has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the strangest journeys ever undertaken and perfectly showcases Thompson’s outlook on life. He is best known for his novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, which first appeared as a two-part series in Rolling Stone magazine in 1971. Thompson is arguably one of America’s greatest ever chroniclers of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times. Famed as the creator of gonzo journalism, the highly subjective blend of fact and fiction, Hunter S.
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