In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile-and the rest
of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily
to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely. We owe that to
ourselves and our crippled self-image as something better than a nation
of panicked sheep.
-- Hunter S. Thompson (b. 1939), journalist
-- The Great Shark Hunt, Jacket Copy for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1979)
of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily
to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely. We owe that to
ourselves and our crippled self-image as something better than a nation
of panicked sheep.
-- Hunter S. Thompson (b. 1939), journalist
-- The Great Shark Hunt, Jacket Copy for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1979)
Related:
- The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie.
He's totally hooked... and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around... - That was always the difference between Muhammed 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.... - Not that we needed all that stuff, but when you get locked into a
serious drug collection the tendency is to push it as far as you can.
-- Hunter S. Thompson, "Fear and Loathing in Las Vega... - In the 60's] there was madness in any direction, at any hour .
.. You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was `right', that we were winning .... - In the 60's] there was madness in any direction, at any hour .
.. You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was `right', that we were winning .... - He had that rare weird electricity about him -- that extremely wild
and heavy presence that you only see in a person who has abandoned
all hope of ever behaving "normally.
-- Hunter S. Thompson (b. 1939), journalist -- Fear and Loathing '72... - 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....
