Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.
—Hunter S. Thompson
Topics: Fear
I have thought this way several times in my life but only when circumstances have led me to a bad pass. No man who has chosen well and wisely will ever credit it to fate; the only real fatalist is a man on his way down the pipe. There is no solace in fatalism.
—Hunter S. Thompson
Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.
—Hunter S. Thompson
Topics: Fun
One of the few ways I can almost be certain I’ll understand something is by sitting down and writing about it. Because by forcing yourself to write about it and putting it down in words, you can’t avoid having to come to grips with it. You might be wrong, but you have to think about it very intensely to write about it. So I use writing as a learning tool.
—Hunter S. Thompson
Topics: Authors & Writing
As things stand now, I am going to be a writer. I’m not sure that I’m going to be a good one or even a self-supporting one, but until the dark thumb of fate presses me to the dust and says “you are nothing,” I will be a writer.
—Hunter S. Thompson
Topics: Authors & Writing
There is a progression of understanding vis-a-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance—physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way. Which is exactly the way it should be, in the eyes of the amazingly small number of people who own and control the game, because it is this finely managed distance factor that accounts for the high-profit mystique that blew the sacred institution of baseball off its “national pastime” pedestal in less than fifteen years.
—Hunter S. Thompson
Topics: Football
If I’d written all 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.
—Hunter S. Thompson
Topics: Journalism, Journalists
Revenge is one of the few things in politics that never gets lost in the mail or written off for a dime on the dollar like losers’ campaign debts or pledges to help the Poor.
—Hunter S. Thompson
Topics: Politics
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- Norman Mailer American Novelist, Journalist
- Lloyd Alexander American Writer
- Robert Anton Wilson American Polymath
- Robert Stone American Novelist
- Howard Zinn American Historian, Activist
- Peter Matthiessen American Naturalist, Novelist
- Andre Norton American Science Fiction Writer
- Cynthia Ozick American Novelist, Essayist
- Dave Barry American Humorist
- Raymond Chandler American Novelist
Leave a Reply