HSHunter S. Thompson

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Hunter S. Thompson

Life dates: 1937 AD — 2005 AD

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 1971 AD

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.

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02c. 1971 AD

Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today's winners are tomorrow's blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope.

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03c. 1971 AD

I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride.

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04c. 1971 AD

I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.

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05c. 1971 AD

One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won't have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.

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06c. 1971 AD

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

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07c. 1971 AD

The best thing about the Kentucky Derby is that it is only two minutes long. It is the quickest event in sports, except for Sumo-wrestling & Mike Tyson fights. Maybe Drag-racing is quicker, but I have never been attracted to it.

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08c. 1971 AD

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory... And why not? Victory is good for you, and don't let anybody tell you different.

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09c. 1971 AD

February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is not even mentioned.

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10c. 1971 AD

The behavior of the crowd at Churchill Downs is like 100,000 vicious Hyenas going berserk all at once in a space about the size of a 777 jet or the White House lawn.

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11c. 1971 AD

I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is risky territory for people with generosity of spirit. Beware.

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12c. 1971 AD

Nixon was a bad loser. He hated losing worse than death, and that is why I enjoyed him. We were both football fans, both addicts; and on some days, nothing else mattered.

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13c. 1971 AD

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

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14c. 1971 AD

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

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15c. 1971 AD

As long as I'm learning something, I figure I'm OK - it's a decent day.

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16c. 1971 AD

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

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17c. 1971 AD

I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination.

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18c. 1971 AD

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot - and it's only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.

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19c. 1971 AD

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.

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20c. 1971 AD

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.

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21c. 1971 AD

The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.

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22c. 1971 AD

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

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23c. 1971 AD

I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your head - big darkness, soon come - but every once in a while you get a fair chance to have it both ways, and the annual NCAA basketball Tournament is one of them.

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24c. 1971 AD

Marathon running, like golf, is a game for players, not winners. That is why Callaway sells golf clubs and Nike sells running shoes. But running is unique in that the world's best racers are on the same course, at the same time, as amateurs, who have as much chance of winning as your average weekend warrior would scoring a touchdown in the NFL.

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