Who said anything about slicing you up? ... I just wanted to carve a little Z on your forehead-- nothing serious. Hunter S. Thompson More Quotes by Hunter S. Thompson More Quotes From Hunter S. Thompson No one HAS to do something he doesn’t want to do for the rest of his life. But then again, if that’s what you wind up doing, by all means convince yourself that you HAD to do it. You’ll have lots of company. Hunter S. Thompson want wind mean A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity. Hunter S. Thompson sense-of-humor sanity One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won't have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it. Hunter S. Thompson vices winning sports A man who has blown all his options can't afford the luxury of changing his ways. He has to capitalize on whatever he has left, and he can't afford to admit - no matter how often he's reminded of it - that every day of his life takes him farther and farther down a blind alley. Hunter S. Thompson fear-and-loathing luxury men There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal. Hunter S. Thompson police risk challenges Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it. Hunter S. Thompson liberalism reason people Happy," I muttered, trying to pin the word down. But it is one of those words, like Love, that I have never quite understood. Most people who deal in words don’t have much faith in them and I am no exception – especially the big ones like Happy and Love and Honest and Strong. They are too elusive and far to relative when you compare them to sharp, mean little words like Punk and Cheap and Phony. I feel at home with these, because they’re scrawny and easy to pin, but the big ones are tough and it takes either a priest or a fool to use them with any confidence. Hunter S. Thompson strong home mean Writing is the flip side of sex - it's good only when it's over. Hunter S. Thompson flip writing sex [Chicago]: This vicious, stinking zoo, this mean-grinning, mace-smelling boneyard of a city: an elegant rockpile of a monument to everything cruel and stupid and corrupt in the human spirit. Hunter S. Thompson stupid zoos mean '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 crazy law art Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism. Hunter S. Thompson hunters cells truth It is like sitting in a traffic jam on the San Diego Freeway with your windows rolled up and Portuguese music booming out of the surround-sound speakers while animals gnaw on your neck and diseased bill collectors hammer on your doors with golf clubs. Hunter S. Thompson surround-sound golf animal There was an awful suspicion in my mind that I'd finally gone over the hump, and the worst thing about it was that I didn't feel tragic at all, but only weary, and sort of comfortably detached. Hunter S. Thompson awful gone mind Every man is the sum total of his reactions to experience. As your experiences differ and multiply, you become a different man, and hence your perspective changes. This goes on and on. Every reaction is a learning process; every significant experience alters your perspective. Hunter S. Thompson perspective motivational men It gave me a strange feeling, and the rest of that night I didn’t say much, but merely sat there and drank, trying to decide if I was getting older and wiser, or just plain old. Hunter S. Thompson getting-older feelings night 1) Never trust a cop in a raincoat. 2) Beware of enthusiasm and of love, both are temporary and quick to sway. 3) If asked if you care about the world's problems, look deep into the eyes of he who asks, he will never ask you again. 4) Never give your real name. 5) If ever asked to look at yourself, don't look. 6) Never do anything the person standing in front of you can't understand. 7) Never create anything, it will be misinterpreted, it will chain you and follow you for the rest of your life. Hunter S. Thompson eye real names I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me Hunter S. Thompson money epic writing Every GOP administration since 1952 has let the Military-Industrial Complex loot the Treasury and plunge the nation into debt on the excuse of a wartime economic emergency. Hunter S. Thompson debt emergencies military Every reaction is a learning process; every significant experience alters your perspective. So it would seem foolish, would it not, to adjust our lives to the demands of a goal we see from a different angle everyday? How could we ever hope to accomplish anything anther than galloping neurosis? Hunter S. Thompson perspective everyday goal A cap of good acid costs $5, and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony, with God singing solo and the Holy Ghost on drums. Hunter S. Thompson dollars singing symphony
