Visdom fra Hunter S Thompsons skarpe pen

  • “When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro” (officielt slogan)
  • “I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me”
  • “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.”
  • “It never got weird enough for me.”
  • “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.”
  • “I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes.”
  • “I shit on the chest of Fun!”
  • “Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas … with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether.”
  • “If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up”
  • “The Edge… there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.”
  • “There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.”
  • “You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.”
  • “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.”
  • “Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.”
  • “By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died”

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