The Life and Times of Hunter S. Thompson

“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. A new high-end Cadillac will go ten or fifteen miles faster if you give it a full dose of “Carmelita”. This has been proven many times. That is why you see so many Cadillacs parked in front of truck stops on Highway 66 around midnight. These are Speed Pimps, and they are loading up on more than gasoline. You watch one of these places for a while & you see a pattern: a big fast car pulls up in front of the doors and a wild-looking girl gets out, stark naked except for a fur coat or a ski parka, and she runs into the place with a handful of money, half-crazy to buy some flat-out guaranteed driving music.” Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fear (via thedevilsattorney)

“Drugs usually enhance or strengthen my perceptions and reactions, for good or ill. They’ve given me the resilience to withstand repeated shocks to my innocence gland. The brutal reality of politics along would probably be intolerable without drugs. They’ve given me the strength to deal with those shocking realities guaranteed to shatter anyone’s beliefs in the higher idealistic shibboleths of our time and the ‘American Century.’ Anyone who covers this beat for twenty years —- and my beat is ‘The Death of the American Dream’ —- needs every goddamned crutch he can find.” Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fear

“The too much fun club is back in business. Let us rumble.” Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fear

“At the top of the mountain, we are all Snow Leopards. Anybody who can do one thing better than anyone else in the world is a natural friend of mine.” Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fear

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I stared out to sea and said nothing for a while. But somehow I knew she was right. Yes sir, I said slowly to myself, I have the soul of a teenage girl in the body of an elderly dope fiend. No wonder they can’t understand me.

This is a hard dollar, on most days, and not many people can stand it. Indeed. If the greatest mania of all is passion: and if I am a natural slave to passion: and if the balance between my brain and my soul and my body is as wild and delicate as the skin of a Ming vase—

Well, that explains a lot of things, doesn’t it? We need look no further. Yes sir, and people wonder why I seem to look at them strangely. Or why my personal etiquette often seems makeshift and contradictory, even clinically insane… Hell, I don’t miss those whispers, those soft groans of fear when I enter a civilized room. I know what they’re thinking, and I know exactly why. They are extremely uncomfortable with the idea that I am a teenage girl trapped in the body of a 60-year-old career criminal who has already died 16 times. Sixteen, all documented. I have been crushed and beaten and shocked and drowned and poisoned and stabbed and shot and smothered and set on fire by my own bombs…

All these things have happened, and probably they will happen again. I have learned a few tricks along the way, a few random skills and simple avoidance techniques—but mainly it has been luck, I think, and a keen attention to karma, along with my natural girlish charm.

” Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fear (via batcountryword)

“I shit on the chest of fun.” Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fear

“The only ones left with any confidence at all are the New Dumb. It is the beginning of the end of our world as we knew it. Doom is the operative ethic.”

Hunter S Thompson, Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century 

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“Coming of age in a fascist police state will not be a barrel of fun for anybody, much less for people like me, who are not inclined to suffer Nazis gladly and feel only contempt for the cowardly flag-suckers who would gladly give up their outdated freedom for what they have been conned into believing will be freedom from fear.” Hunter S. Thompson - Kingdom of Fear (via briankeene)

“The only freedom we truly crave today is freedom from Dumbness. Nothing else matters” Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fear (via solitaryvoice)

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“Fear is a healthy instinct, not a sign of weakness. It is a natural self-defense mechanism that is common to felines, wolves, and most humans. Even fruit bats know fear and I salute them for it. If you think the world is weird now, imagine how weird it would be if wild beasts had no fear.” Kingdom of Fear, Hunter S. Thompson (via takenraisin)

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“The Truth, when you finally chase it down, is almost always far worse than your darkest visions and fears.” Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fear (via missrunaness)

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“You can’t hoard fun. It has no shelf life.”  Hunter S. Thompson  (Book: Kingdom of Fear)

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“Abandon all hope, even if you’re innocent…” Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century 

“Sane is a dangerous word. It implies a clear distinction, a sharp line between the Sane and the Insane that we all see clearly and accept as the truth of nature. But it is not. The only real difference between the Sane and the Insane, in this world, is the Sane have the power to have the Insane locked up. That is the bottom line. CLANG! Go immediately to prison. You crazy bastard, you should have been locked up a long time ago. You are a dangerous freak- I am rich, and I want you castrated.” Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fear

“she had a swimming pool shaped like a football in her backyard, and the neighbours called the police on us when we ran around naked & fucked like sea-weasels on the diving board…sally loved football players. she thought she could stay young forever by sucking the juice of eternal life out of hard young bodies. she called it “the milk of paradise” and she rubbed it on her face every night.” Hunter S. Thompson - Kingdom of Fear