Quote

I've always considered writing the most hateful kind of work. I suspect it's a bit like fucking - which is fun only for amateurs. Old whores don't do much giggling.

Hunter S. Thompson

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Hunter S. Thompson
Age: 67 †
Born: 1937
Born: July 18
Died: 2005
Died: February 20
Autobiographer
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Photographer
Politician
Reporter
Screenwriter
Writer
Louisville
Kentucky
Hunter Stockton Thompson
Work
Amateurs
Much
Hateful
Kind
Suspect
Always
Suspects
Like
Considered
Fun
Fucking
Bits
Giggling
Writing
Whores

More quotes by Hunter S. Thompson

Image
We have bigger things to brood on and enormous reasons for wallowing in terminal craziness until we finally hit bottom.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
Nixon had the unique ability to make his enemies seem honorable, and we developed a keen sense of fraternity. Some of my best friends have hated Nixon all their lives. My mother hates Nixon, my son hates Nixon, I hate Nixon, and this hatred has brought us together.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
and the sad notes floated out to the patio and hung in the trees like birds too tired to fly
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
Some people will tell you that slow is good - but I'm here to tell you that fast is better. I've always believed this, in spite of the trouble it's caused me. Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
I guess I'm just courtly until people get in my way. You'll find most Southerners are like that.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
My blood is too thick for California: I have never been able to properly explain myself in this climate.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name. Remembered line from a long- forgotten poem
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
He had that rare weird electricity about him - that extremely wild and heavy presence that you only see in a person who has abandoned all hope of ever behaving normally.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives... and to the good life, whatever it is and wherever it happens to be.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
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.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
Las Vegas is the savage heart of the American Dream.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
It is like sitting in a traffic jam on the San Diego Freeway with your windows rolled up and Portuguese music booming out of the surround-sound speakers while animals gnaw on your neck and diseased bill collectors hammer on your doors with golf clubs.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my instincts were right.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
As your attorney, it is my duty to inform you that it is not important that you understand what I'm doing or why you're paying me so much money. What's important is that you continue to do so.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
You almost have to be a rock star to generate the kind of fever you need to survive in American politics.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
All advice can only be a product of the man who gives it.
Hunter S. Thompson