Frasi di Hunter Stockton Thompson
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Hunter Stockton Thompson è stato un giornalista e scrittore statunitense.

È famoso per aver creato il cosiddetto gonzo journalism, uno stile di scrittura che combina il giornalismo convenzionale, le impressioni personali e gli artifici narrativi del racconto per produrre un personale punto di vista sugli avvenimenti e le situazioni. Wikipedia  

✵ 18. Luglio 1937 – 20. Febbraio 2005   •   Altri nomi Хантер Стоктон Томпсон, هانتر اس. تامپسون
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“The only ones left with any confidence at all are the New Dumb. It is the beginning of the end of our world as we knew it. Doom is the operative ethic.”

2000s, Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century (2004)

“I understand that fear is my friend, but not always. Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.”

2000s, Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century (2004)

“Not even the foulest atrocities of Adolf Hitler ever shocked me so badly as these Abu Ghraib photographs did.”

"Let's Go to the Olympics!" (18 May 2004); this was afterwards edited at ESPN to read "These horrifying digital snapshots of the American dream in action on foreign soil are worse than anything even I could have expected." Drudge Report (24 May 2004) http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2004/05/24/20040524_231202_flash3.htm
2000s

“We are like pygmies lost in a maze of haze. We are not at war, we are having a nervous breakdown, again.”

2000s, Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century (2004)

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

Letter to Dwight Martin (21 February 1964), p. 440
1990s, The Proud Highway : The Fear and Loathing Letters Volume I (1997)

“I had a soft spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth, and also because his wife gave the best head in Hollywood.”

Hunter S. Thompson libro Hey Rube

Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness (2004)
2000s

“Platitudes are safe, because they're easy to wink at, but truth is something else again.”

Letter to William J. Kennedy (29 October 1959), p. 192
1990s, The Proud Highway : The Fear and Loathing Letters Volume I (1997)

“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.”

A note to his grandson, Will (2005) http://books.google.com/books?id=9Zy4GJrn--UC&pg=PA350&dq=%22truth+seekers,+lovers+and+warriors%22&hl=en&ei=AyvoTYrBIIq8sQOBg7XtDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&sqi=2&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22truth%20seekers%2C%20lovers%20and%20warriors%22&f=false, reprinted in "Outlaw Journalist : The Life and Times of Hunter S. Thompson" (2008), by William McKeen
2000s

“All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way.”

Hunter S. Thompson libro Kingdom of Fear

2000s, Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century (2004)

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