Hunter Stockton Thompson was born on July 18 in 1937, in Kentucky in the U.S. He was an American journalist. He was also the founder of the Gonzo Journalism Movement. Thompson attended I.N. Bloom Elementary School, Highland Middle School, and Atherton High School before transferring to Louisville Male High School in September 1952. Some of his notable works are -
1.Hell's Angels (1967)
2.Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971)
3.Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 (1973)
4.The Curse of Lono (1983)
5.The Rum Diary (1998)
He joined the U.S. Air Force in 1956. He also served as a sports editor for a base newspaper and continued his journalism career after being discharged in 1957. He had two spouses. He married Sandra Conklin in 1963 and later married Anita Bejmuk in 2003. Hunter Thompson is best known for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971), a book first serialized in Rolling Stone. His prominence was felt with the publication of Hell's Angels in 1967, a book. He spent a year living and riding with the Hells Angels motorcycle club to write a first-hand account of the lives and experiences of its members.
He was interested in sports and athletically inclined from a very young age. His later works include The Great Shark Hunt (1979), Better Than Sex (1994), and Kingdom of Fear (2003). He died on February 20 in 2005, at the age of 67, in Woody Creek, Colorado, U.S. Below are some of the famous Hunter S. Thompson Quotes.
Buy the ticket, take the ride.
Hunter says that to be successful, one has to work hard for his dream. He can turn it into reality by working on his dream and then enjoy it later in his life.
Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why.
Life is very absurd. Some things may appear weird today but will pave the way for tomorrow. At the inception of something, it may appear absurd or weird to us, but in the end, it will lead to a meaningful purpose in the future.
I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
Hunter S. Thompson says that Republicans are different kinds of people who have different concepts regarding democracy. They think that democracy is a tribal myth and is difficult to decode.
If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.
Being crazy about a particular thing is important so that we can achieve it. By going crazy after something will bear fruits on us.
Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond.
He says that good news is rarely found today. In today's era, good news is hardly found. Even an ounce of good news is fully cherished, hoarded and worshipped as if it is a priceless diamond that cannot be found anywhere.
I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination.
He says that reality is weird from the actual situation. Reality is very less acceptable by the people. Reality is weirder than anyone's imagination because people cannot easily digest it.
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There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.
Hunter S. Thompson talks about the helplessness being felt by an individual. Nothing is more helpless and irresponsible to a man if he cannot do something he is capable of doing it.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
Everyone does not speak the truth easily. The people usually have a tinge of untruth in their talks. They do not want to speak the truth as they know it. Usually, the truth is never told between the important hours of a day as people will come to know about it, and it may be difficult for some people to handle it.
For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
Hunter S. Thompson talks about the full circle which surrounds beauty. He says that every moment of triumph and instance of beauty requires many souls to be crushed. He is particularly talking about the film industry. To become successful concerning any souls are trampled.
Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.
Freedom is very difficult to achieve. Freedom is something that dies if it is not used. We have to fight for freedom. History is testimony to this fact that freedom was not easily achievable, but huge efforts have been put by many people tot.
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
Hunter S. Thompson talks about a closed society where the truth cannot flourish. People hide the truth and compromise with their dignity. In a closed society, when everybody is guilty, the crime is only of getting caught. In the world of thieves, the only sin is stupidity.
You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when it is waving a razor-sharp hunting knife in your eye.
Avoidance of drugs is difficult when a person is addicted to them. We can avoid drugs if a person is assisting or pressuring us to use them. But it becomes really difficult if one person is addicted to drugs as he cannot overcome such addiction.
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The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who know where it is are the ones who have gone over it.
Hunter S. Thompson says that honest people are rare to find in today's world. Only a few people are left in the world who dare to speak the truth and fight for it.
There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.
We must not fear paranoia. Fear is very bad, and it may get over us if we do not conquer it. Paranoia is fear, and it is such a thing that may break us and mainly make us weak from the inside.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Hunter S. Thompson explains the importance of a healthy life. He does not want to advocate the usage of alcohol, drugs, insanity or violence against anyone. These things will destroy a person's life, and hence a person must avoid them so that he does not fall prey to them.
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
Hunter S. Thompson tells us that in life, some things may not go as we wish. But we must be patient and vigilant so that we can watch the situation and act accordingly. Things may appear weird in the first instance, but later it will turn out to be good.
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
Thompson says that no man is so foolish that he cannot advise other people. Knowledge is spread everywhere, and we can gather it if we have the willpower to grasp it. Also, no person is so powerful or wise that he cannot take advice from another person. A person has to be vigilant so that he can be very confident in himself and his decisions.
America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
Hunter S. Thompson says that America is a great power and a great nation where 200 million used car salesmen have the money to buy guns, and this money is used to kill other people. He tries to draw a contrast between the money earned and how it is being put to use.
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 tells the importance of truth in our life. Truth is rarely found anywhere. Truth is very rare to find in professional journalism, and it becomes really dangerous if absolute truth comes before the public. Hence journalism is a mixture of truth and some lies.
The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.
The TV business is very big. It involves many ugly things in it. However, the world perceives it to be a fantastic life, but it is not so in reality. The real picture of TV life is far from normal. It is a very cruel life that is fully loaded with money. People who have potential and are good are treated like dogs for no reason, and they suffer a lot in the TV industry.
