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Quotes from Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 — Hunter S. Thompson

1937–2005 United States

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The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.

Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 (1973)

They wanted Action, Color, Speed, Violence...

Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 (1973)

If the current polls are reliable... Nixon will be re-elected by a huge majority of Americans who feel he is not only more honest and more trustworthy than George McGovern, but also more likely to end the war in Vietnam.

Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 (1973)

Even that far-left radical bastard George S. McGovern — babbling a maddening litany of his most Far Out ideas — would be hard pressed to crank up a more than 30% animosity quotient.

Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 (1973)

Jesus man! You don't look for acid! Acid finds you when it thinks you're ready.

Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 (1973)

A nervous blonde nymphet who thought that politics was some kind of game played by old people, like bridge.

Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 (1973)

So much for Objective Journalism. Don't bother to look for it here — not under any byline of mine; or anyone else I can think of.

Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 (1973)

It's come to the point where you almost can't run unless you can cause people to salivate and whip each other with big sticks. You almost have to be a rock star to get the kind of fever you need to survive in American politics.

Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 (1973)

There was something... total... something very undermining about the McGovern defeat... There was a very unexplained kind of... ominous quality to it... weeping chaos.

Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 (1973)

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