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1937–2005 United States
Hunter Stockton Thompson (18 July 1937 – 20 February 2005) was an American journalist and author famous for his flamboyant writing style, known as Gonzo Journalism, which blurred the distinctions between writer and subject, fiction and non-fiction. At the age of 67, suffering a bout of health problems, Thompson died at his home in Woody Creek, Colorado, of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
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You'd be surprised at the things people will do in order to get their names or pictures in the paper.
The Proud Highway : The Fear and Loathing Letters Volume I (1997)
If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.
It ain't much, but it's the only weapon we have against the Greedheads.
He could shake your hand and stab you in the back at the same time.
He Was A Crook (1994)
These horrifying digital snapshots of the American dream in action on foreign soil are worse than anything even I could have expected.
Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of 'the rat race' is not yet final.
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
It is all well and good for children and acid freaks to still believe in Santa Claus — but it is still a profoundly morbid day for us working professionals.
The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now.
Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have to know the material you're writing about before you alter it.
Associated Press interview (2003)
Richard Nixon has never been one of my favorite people anyway.
Walk tall, kick ass, learn to speak Arabic, love music and never forget you come from a long line of truth seekers, lovers and warriors.
Frankly, I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left me.
The Proud Highway : The Fear and Loathing Letters Volume I (1997)
We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971)
All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
It is hard to ignore the prima facie dumbness that got us bogged down in this nasty war in the first place.
No candidate will risk being linked with a "suspected" addict — but a registered, admitted addict is a whole different thing.
Not even the foulest atrocities of Adolf Hitler ever shocked me so badly as these Abu Ghraib photographs did.
Platitudes are safe, because they're easy to wink at, but truth is something else again.
The Proud Highway : The Fear and Loathing Letters Volume I (1997)
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