The Life and Times of Hunter S. Thompson

"It never got weird enough for me." — HST

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June 1, 2012 3:26 pm
gqfashion: Your Morning Shot: Hunter S. Thompson “Absolute truth is a very rare, and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.”

gqfashion:

Your Morning Shot: Hunter S. Thompson

“Absolute truth is a very rare, and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.”

12:41 pm
"We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws."

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Hunter S. Thompson (via pompouspaul)
May 31, 2012 3:24 pm
"

I was waking up and the phone rang. It was a friend in Kentucky, Joe Petro the Third. They always have to have descendants. He said: ‘Take your phone of the hook. Hunter just put a bullet from a Magnum .44 through his brain. It’s the death of fun, Ralph.’

Hunter always said to me that he would feel trapped in this life if he didn’t know that he could commit suicide at any moment. He was the greatest person I ever met in my life.

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Ralph Steadman when asked if he remembered what he was doing when he heard Hunter S. Thompson had committed suicide (via nostalgiache)
May 30, 2012 6:14 pm
"Sometimes the lack of Adrenaline is almost like a drug itself."

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Hunter S. Thompson (via symptomofthe-universe)
May 29, 2012 3:29 pm
"For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled."

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Hunter S. Thompson (via art-any-road)
12:36 pm
"And now look at me: half-crazy with fear, driving 120 miles an hour across Death Valley in some car I never even wanted. You evil bastard! This is your work! You’d better take care of me, Lord…because if you don’t you’re going to have me on your hands."

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Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (via jtxdz)
May 27, 2012 6:13 pm
"The decision to flee came suddenly. Or maybe not. Maybe I’d planned it all along - subconsciously waiting for the right moment."

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Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (via hazyxflash)
3:30 pm
"Living on pills, phone calls unmade, people unseen, pages unwritten, money unmade, pressure piling up all around to make some kind of breakthrough and get moving again. Get the gum off the rails, finish something, croak this awful habit of not ever getting to the end - of anything."

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Hunter S. Thompson, Songs of the Doomed (via kamslow)
12:38 pm
"The patio was crowded, so we sat inside at the snack bar. All around us were people I had spent ten years avoiding—shapeless women in wool bathing suits, dull-eyed men with hairless legs and self-conscious laughs, all Americans, all fearsomely alike. These people should be kept at home, I thought; lock them in the basement of some goddamn Elks Club and keep them pacified with erotic movies; if they want a foreign vacation, show them a foreign art film; and if they still aren’t satisfied, send them into the wilderness and run them with vicious dogs."

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from The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thomspon (via chronicles) 
May 26, 2012 6:02 pm
"If you consider the great journalists in history, you don’t see too many objective journalists on that list."

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Hunter S. Thompson (via mahamabedi)
3:23 pm
"I took a fast right on Russell, then a left onto Maryland Parkway…and suddenly I was cruising in warm anonymity past the campus of the University of Las Vegas…no tension on these faces; I stopped at a red light and got lost, for a moment, in a sunburst of flesh in the cross-walk: fine sinewy thighs, pink mini-skirts, ripe young nipples, sleeveless blouses, long sweeps of blonde hair, pink lips and blue eyes- all the hallmarks of a dangerously innocent culture."

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Hunter S. Thompson (Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas)

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12:40 pm

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May 24, 2012 12:45 pm
"I’ve said before, The Great Gatsby is possibly the Great American Novel, if you look at it as a technical achievement. It’s about 55,000 words, which was astounding to me. In Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas, I tried to compete with that. It was one of the basic guiding principles for my writing. I’ve always competed with that. Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life. Shoot, I couldn’t match 55,000 no matter how I chopped. There are few things that I read and say, ‘Boy, I wish I could write that.’ Damn few. The Book of Revelation is one. Gatsby is one."

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Dr. Hunter S. Thompson - The Rolling Stone Interviews (via jujumigu)
May 21, 2012 6:16 pm
shannonalaura: Hunter S. Thompson painting, it’s about 3 feet tall.

shannonalaura:

Hunter S. Thompson painting, it’s about 3 feet tall.

3:30 pm
thomasjamesporter: “My concept of death for a long time was to come down that mountain road at 120 and just keep going straight right there, burst out through the barrier and hang out above all that … and there I’d be, sitting in the front seat, stark naked, with a case of whiskey next to me and a case of dynamite in the trunk … honking the horn, and the lights on, and just sit there in space for an instant, a human bomb, and fall down into that mess of steel mills. It’d be a tremendous goddam explosion. No pain. No one would get hurt. I’m pretty sure, unless they’ve changed the highway, that launching place is still there. As soon as I get home, I ought to take the drive just to check it out.”—Quoted in St. Petersburg Times, February 22, 2005

thomasjamesporter:

“My concept of death for a long time was to come down that mountain road at 120 and just keep going straight right there, burst out through the barrier and hang out above all that … and there I’d be, sitting in the front seat, stark naked, with a case of whiskey next to me and a case of dynamite in the trunk … honking the horn, and the lights on, and just sit there in space for an instant, a human bomb, and fall down into that mess of steel mills. It’d be a tremendous goddam explosion. No pain. No one would get hurt. I’m pretty sure, unless they’ve changed the highway, that launching place is still there. As soon as I get home, I ought to take the drive just to check it out.”
—Quoted in St. Petersburg Times, February 22, 2005