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Hunter S. Thompson
Hunter S. Thompson
American Journalist
Born: Jul 18, 1937
Died: Feb 20, 2005
Always Good Me People Politics You
Related authors: Ambrose Bierce Charles Krauthammer Dave Barry Erma Bombeck Mignon McLaughlin Walter Cronkite William F. Buckley, Jr. William Lloyd Garrison
February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is not even mentioned. Hunter S. Thompson
Sports Gone Month Plodding TV Bad Mentioned February Football Along Annual Always Even Baseball Basketball
I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a certain nostalgia for it when I see a big white racing yacht heeled over at cruising speed on the ocean, and I can still tie a mean bowline knot on just about anything in less than 10 seconds. Hunter S. Thompson
Nature Experience Big Sail Ocean White Speed Enough Seconds See About Feel Over Knot Tie Yacht Am Still Than Person Just Nostalgia Anything Mean Racing Certain Sea Less
There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge. Hunter S. Thompson
Man Nothing More Than Irresponsible Ether Depths Helpless Binge
I am more than just a serious basketball fan. I am a life-long addict. I was addicted from birth, in fact, because I was born in Kentucky and I learned, early on, that Habitual Domination was a natural way of life. Hunter S. Thompson
Life Natural Addict Addicted Birth Way Born More Life-Long Fact Habitual Learned Because Am Domination Than Just In Fact Fan Natural Way Serious Early Kentucky Basketball
Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning. Hunter S. Thompson
Morning Every Pants Nixon Crooked He Him His Screw Help Servants Needed
Nixon was a bad loser. He hated losing worse than death, and that is why I enjoyed him. We were both football fans, both addicts; and on some days, nothing else mattered. Hunter S. Thompson
Death Losing Fans Nothing Addict Else Worse Nixon Bad Hated Some Both Football He Days Him Loser Were Mattered Than Why Enjoyed
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
Generation Rest Ali Saw See Entirely Lifetime He Between Likely Always Came Close Anybody Difference Doomed Us Muhammad Muhammad Ali Conquer
Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race. Hunter S. Thompson
Men President Monument Run Only Could Understood George Truly America Human Race Century Human Race Twentieth Twentieth Century
There is no fool like a careless gambler who starts taking victory for granted. Hunter S. Thompson
Fool Victory Starts Careless Taking Like Gambler Granted Who
One thing I have learned in my painful career as a gambler is that bragging when you get lucky and win a few games will plunge you into gloom and unacceptable beatings very soon. It happens every time. Hunter S. Thompson
Time You Win Will Few Every Every Time Unacceptable One Thing Plunge Soon Gloom Learned Bragging Very Get Happens Gambler Painful Games Lucky Thing Career
I don't think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It's lonely out here. Hunter S. Thompson
Lonely Think Out Out Here Kind Journalism Been Popular Ever Here Universally
I have always hated bowling, and I don't mind admitting it. Hunter S. Thompson
Mind Admitting Hated Bowling Always
Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common. Hunter S. Thompson
Alone Personality Fans Language Types Only Never Football Share Cultures Legion Often Common The Only Thing Fan Cuts Across Many Serious Thing Universal Universal Language
Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer... in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my friend. Hunter S. Thompson
Me Enemy Sense Bit Arab My Friend Writer Friend Jack Quite Quite A Bit Influenced
There might be some serious fun in politics. Hunter S. Thompson
Politics Some Might Fun Serious
The behavior of the crowd at Churchill Downs is like 100,000 vicious Hyenas going berserk all at once in a space about the size of a 777 jet or the White House lawn. Hunter S. Thompson
Behavior Space White White House Jet Once Churchill Berserk About Lawn Crowd Like House Going Size Vicious Downs
I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your head - big darkness, soon come - but every once in a while you get a fair chance to have it both ways, and the annual NCAA basketball Tournament is one of them. Hunter S. Thompson
You Heart Darkness Big Every Once Ways Dangers About Both Both Ways Head Tournament Instead Betting Soon Fair Come Fair Chance Annual Times Get While Them Warned Your Many Chance Basketball Guaranteed
There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother's milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it, or there won't be any winners. Hunter S. Thompson
Business Mother Somebody Winners Football Always Losers Any Room Gambling Milk Why Why Not
The Hell's Angels try not to do anything halfway, and anyone who deals in extremes is bound to cause trouble, whether he means to or not. This, along with a belief in total retaliation for any offense or insult, is what makes the Hell's Angels unmanageable for the police and morbidly fascinating to the general public. Hunter S. Thompson
Police Cause Try Trouble Hell Extremes Total Angels General General Public Retaliation He Bound Along Halfway Insult Makes Deals Offense Any Anyone Anything Whether Public Means Who Fascinating Belief
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