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Quotes from The Proud Highway : The Fear and Loathing Letters Volume I — Hunter S. Thompson

1937–2005 United States

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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)

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)

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)

We shall ride the bouncing ball and fight gamely to avoid being on the bottom when it bounces.

The Proud Highway : The Fear and Loathing Letters Volume I (1997)

A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.

The Proud Highway : The Fear and Loathing Letters Volume I (1997)

Sacrificing good men to journalism is like sending William Faulkner to work for Time magazine.

The Proud Highway : The Fear and Loathing Letters Volume I (1997)

A man has to BE something; he has to matter.

The Proud Highway : The Fear and Loathing Letters Volume I (1997)

Events of the past two years have virtually decreed that I shall wrestle with the literary muse for the rest of my days.

The Proud Highway : The Fear and Loathing Letters Volume I (1997)

I may sound a little black, but I'm really pretty well adjusted.

The Proud Highway : The Fear and Loathing Letters Volume I (1997)

Once I establish credit, I may be able to function. A man needs credit. Especially when he has no money.

The Proud Highway : The Fear and Loathing Letters Volume I (1997)

Something new is wanted. A new novel, perhaps. Something the ten-percenters don't have their hooks into yet. Those soul-fuckers should all be killed.

The Proud Highway : The Fear and Loathing Letters Volume I (1997)

Hopes rise and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain. The sound of music floats down a dark street.

The Proud Highway : The Fear and Loathing Letters Volume I (1997)

They say that "he who flies highest, falls farthest" — and who am I to argue? But we can't forget that "he who doesn't flap his wings, never flies at all". And with that, I'll stop trying to convince myself that I can't fail; how dull the whole thing would be if that were true.

The Proud Highway : The Fear and Loathing Letters Volume I (1997)

There is at this moment a beetle the size of god's ass on the table about six inches from the t-writer. It is worse than anything Kafka ever dreamed, so big I can see its eyes and the hair on its legs — jesus, suddenly it leaped off and now circles me with a menacing whir.

The Proud Highway : The Fear and Loathing Letters Volume I (1997)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Hunter S. Thompson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.