Hunter S. Thompson citáty

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„Nebol som hrdý na to, čo som sa naučil, ale nikdy som nepochyboval, že to stojí za to vedieť.“

„Niektorí nikdy naplno nežijú, ale blázon nikdy nezomrie.“

„Príliš divný na život, príliš vzácny na smrť.“

„Pijem oveľa menej, ako si väčšina ľudí myslí, a myslím oveľa viac, ako by tomu väčšina ľudí verila.“

“Jesus! Did I SAY that? Or just think it? Was I talking? Did they hear me? I glanced over at my attorney, but he seemed oblivious…”

“I knew a Buddhist once, and I've hated myself ever since. The whole thing was a failure.”

“An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it.”

“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.”

“A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long.”

“All energy flows according to the whims of the great Magnet. What a fool I was to defy him.”

“You can't hoard fun. It has no shelf life.”

“The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb grey hairs”

“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.”

“live out where the real winds blow—to sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky, and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind except falling in love and not getting arrested… Res ipsa loquitur. Let the good times roll.”

“I wanted to take off all my clothes and never wear them again.”

“There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks ofchallenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.”

“Whatever he might have denied me was unimportant; it was the
fact that he could deny me anything at all, even what I didn't want”

“We came out here to find the American Dream, and now that we're right in the vortex you want to quit… You must realize that we've found the main nerve."

I know," he said. "That's what gives me the Fear.”

“I am a road man for the lords of karma.”

“A cap of good acid costs five dollars and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony with God singing solo and Holy Ghost on drums.”

“right' i said. 'but first, we need the car. and after that, the cocaine. and then the tape recorder, for special music, and some acapulco shirts.”

“The Angels don’t like to be called losers, but they have learned to live with it. “Yeah, I guess I am,” said one. “But you’re looking at one loser who’s going to make a hell of a scene on the way out.”

“The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but to those who see it coming and jump aside.”

“There may be flies on you and me, but there are no flies on Jesus.”

“All we have to do is get out and vote, while it's still legal, and we will wash those crooked warmongers out of the White House.”

“Politics is the Art of Controlling Your Enviroment.”

“Kill the body and the head will die.”

“How long can we maintain? I wonder. How long before one of us starts raving and jabbering at this boy? What will he think then? This same lonely desert was the last known home of the Manson family. Will he make that grim connection..”

“I am more than just a Serious basketball fan. I am a life-long Addict. I was addicted from birth, in fact, because I was born in Kentucky.”

“The brutal reality of politics would be probably intolerable without drugs.”

“He gave my hand a final shake. “Okay, Kemp,” he said with a grin. “Thanks a lot – you came through like a champ.” “Hell,” I said, starting the engine. “We’re all champs when we’re drunk.”

“The waitress had the appearance of a very old hooker who had finally found her place in life”

“God's mercy on you degenerate swine.”