The Life and Times of Hunter S. Thompson

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“Order some golf shoes,” I whispered. “Otherwise, we’ll never got out of this place alive…”

“The only difference between the Sane and the Insane, is IN and yet within this world, the Sane have the power to have the Insane locked up.”
-Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fear

“Like most of the others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser. I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my instincts were right. I shared a vagrant optimism that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of us would inevitably make it over the top. At the same time, I shared a dark suspicion that the life we were leading was a lost cause, that we were all actors, kidding ourselves along on a senseless odyssey. It was the tension between these two poles - a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other - that kept me going.”
-The Rum Diary

“We are like pygmies lost in a maze of haze. We are not at war, we are having a nervous breakdown, again.”
-Kingsom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century (2004)

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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson