The Life and Times of Hunter S. Thompson: Archive

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Jul 1st

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Jul 1st

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Jun 30th

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Jun 30th

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Jun 30th

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Jun 29th

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Jun 29th

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Ah, devil ether — a total body drug. The mind recoils in horror, unable to communicate with the spinal column. The hands flap crazily, unable to get money out of the pocket… garbled laughter and hissing from the mouth… always smiling. Ether is the perfect drug for Las Vegas. In this town they love a drunk. Fresh meat. So they put us through the turnstiles and turned us loose inside. -...

Jun 29th

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“With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild...”

– Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ‘72 (via awesomebookquotes)

Jun 28th

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Jun 28th

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Jun 28th

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“Sounds of life and movement, people getting ready and people giving up, the...”

– Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary (via hazybrain)

Jun 28th

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“The room was very quiet. I walked over to the TV set and turned it on to a dead...”

– page 62, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson (via bpgonzo)

Jun 27th

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Jun 27th

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“Who are these pigs — as a validated addict I demand to be left alone — drink the...”

– Hunter S. Thompson rambling on an airplane while feeling the effects of mescaline for the very first time. (from Screwjack, p. 37-38)

Jun 27th

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Jun 26th

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Jun 26th

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Jun 26th

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Jun 26th

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Jun 25th

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“There is a line somewhere between democratizing journalism and every man a...”

– Hunter S. Thompson on Internet journalism, circa 1997. What would Thompson’s career have looked like if he had started in 2012? (via parsely)

Jun 25th

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Jun 25th

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“There was one exact moment, in fact, when I knew for sure that Al Gore would...”

– Hunter S. Thompson, “The Fix is In” (27 November 2000). (via oswaldofguadalupe)

Jun 24th

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Jun 24th

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Jun 24th

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Matthew Hahn: "Writing on the Wall - An Interview... →

Jun 24th

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“We sat there for several hours, talking, drinking lazily, killing the time while...”

– from The Rum Diary, by Hunter S. Thompson (via bpgonzo)

Jun 23rd

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Jun 23rd

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Jun 22nd

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Jun 22nd

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Good mescaline comes on slow. The first hour is all waiting, then about halfway through the second hour you start cursing the creep who burned you, because nothing is happening… and then ZANG! Fiendish intensity, strange glow and vibrations… a very heavy gig in a place like the Circus-Circus. “I hate to say this,” said my attorney as we sat down at the Merry-Go-Round Bar on the second...

Jun 22nd

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Jun 21st

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Jun 21st

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“Reminiscing about the good doctor has always conjured up more than a few choice...”

– Johnny Depp remembering Hunter S. Thompson, excerpt from the Introduction to GONZO, a visual biography by Johnny Depp, Ben Corbett, and Hunter S. Thompson. (via bpgonzo) BEWM, on my birthday!

Jun 21st

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Jun 20th

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“With the palms zipping past and the big sun burning down on the road ahead, I...”

– from The Rum Diary, by Hunter S. Thompson (via bpgonzo)

Jun 20th

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Jun 20th

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Jun 19th

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Jun 19th

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Jun 19th

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“I went to the Democratic Convention as a journalist, and returned a cold-blooded...”

– Hunter S. Thompson, As quoted in the editors note by Douglas Brinkley, in Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist(2000) (via illuminateinspire)

Jun 18th

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