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In the late sixties, a young journalist and free-lance novelist named Hunter S. Thompson emerged with his bold and brazen style of writing in the U.S. The time was right for such a crazed and exaggerated brand of reporting. During the late fifties and early sixties, Thompson became disillusioned with newspapers and his writing career. Because of differences in personality, opinion and style, he did not last long at many of the small town dailies he worked for. "they were introducing bowling to Puerto Rico. I had to go out and cover bowling every night in San Juan. Bowling was going big. Bowling alleys were popping up everywhere. What could you say about bowling? Bowlers just wanted to see their names in the paper. That was the essential thing....about half my work was making sure every bowler in San Juan got his name in the magazine...And ever since I've hated the word bowling" (Thompson, 1990, p65). he quit the paper when it refused to run an article about Tom Wolfe's novel, The Kandy-Colored Tangerine Flake Streamline Baby. The review was the last in a series of grudges Thompson had with the paper, stemming from an unpublished tribute to JFK. The death of the charismatic president had a deep impact on Hunter. "I was feeling so good about the country...[b]ut all of a sudden that day the country looked different to me, and I felt very bad about it," (Thompson, 1990, p106) he wrote almost thirty years after the event. Later, in Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 he would roast Hubert Humphrey for using the voices of John and Robert Kennedy to promote his campaign (Thompson, 1973). His first piece to be christened "gonzo" was his infamous account of Louisville's most famous event, "The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved", which is more about white trash than horses.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me. Hunter S. ThompsonA word to the wise is infuriating. Hunter S. Thompson 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. Hunter S. Thompson Call on God, but row away from the rocks. Hunter S. Thompson Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect. Hunter S. Thompson I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me. Hunter S. Thompson I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. Hunter S. Thompson I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me. Hunter S. Thompson If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism. Hunter S. Thompson 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. Hunter S. Thompson No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master. Hunter S. Thompson Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times. Hunter S. Thompson That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation. Hunter S. Thompson 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. Hunter S. Thompson The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side. Hunter S. Thompson The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs Hunter S. Thompson There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge. Hunter S. Thompson When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. Hunter S. Thompson 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. Hunter S. Thompson