Hunter S. Thompson Zitate

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„Wir sind alle allein, allein geboren, sterben allein und werden - trotz True Romance-Magazinen - eines Tages alle auf unser Leben zurückblicken und feststellen, dass wir trotz unserer Gesellschaft den ganzen Weg allein waren. Ich sage nicht einsam - zumindest nicht die ganze Zeit -, sondern im Wesentlichen und schließlich allein. Dies ist es, was Ihre Selbstachtung so wichtig macht, und ich verstehe nicht, wie Sie sich selbst respektieren können, wenn Sie in den Herzen und Gedanken anderer nach ihrem Glück suchen müssen.“

„Sex ohne Liebe ist so hohl und lächerlich wie Liebe ohne Sex.“

„Ich möchte für niemanden, Drogen, Alkohol, Gewalt oder Wahnsinn bewerben, doch für mich haben sie immer funktioniert.“

„Das Leben ist unermesslich besser geworden, seit ich gezwungen war, es nicht mehr ernst zu nehmen.“

„Gute Leute trinken gutes Bier.“

„Einige leben vielleicht nie, aber die Verrückten sterben nie.“

„Da geht er hin, einer von Gottes eigenen Prototypen - ein aufgemotzter Mutant, der nie zur Massenproduktion in Betracht gezogen wurde: zu spleenig zum Leben und zu selten zum Sterben.“

„Zu seltsam, um zu leben zu selten, um zu sterben!“

„Moral ist temporär, Weisheit ist permanent.“

„Als Ihr Anwalt ist es meine Pflicht, Sie darüber zu informieren, dass es weder darauf ankommt, dass Sie verstehen, was ich tue, noch, warum Sie mir soviel Geld bezahlen müssen - wichtig ist allein, dass Sie damit fortfahren.“

„Wenn Sie verrückt werden, müssen Sie dafür bezahlt werden, sonst werden Sie eingesperrt.“

„The Edge … Es gibt keinen ehrlichen Weg, es zu erklären, denn die einzigen Menschen, die wirklich wissen, wo es ist, sind diejenigen, die darüber hinweggegangen sind.“

„In einer blockierten Gesellschaft, wo jeder schuldig ist, ist es das einzige Verbrechen, sich erwischen zu lassen. In einer Welt der Diebe ist Dummheit die einzige unverzeihliche Sünde.“

„Ein Mann der seine Wahl hinauszögert, für den werden unweigerlich die Umstände entscheiden.“

„Die Verrücktheit von gestern ist der Grund von morgen.“

„Keine Spiele mehr. Keine Bomben mehr. Kein Laufen mehr. Kein Spaß mehr. Kein Schwimmen mehr. 67. Das sind 17 Jahre nach 50. 17 mehr als ich brauchte oder wollte. Langweilig. Ich bin nur noch gehässig. Kein Spaß – für niemanden. 67. Du wirst gierig. Benimm dich deinem hohen Alter entsprechend. Entspann' dich – es wird nicht wehtun.“

“We have bigger things to brood on and enormous reasons for wallowing in terminal craziness until we finally hit bottom.”

“The room was very quiet. I walked over to the TV set and turned it on to a dead channel-white noise at maximum decibels, a fine sound for sleeping, a powerful continuous hiss to drown out everything strange.”

“Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.”

“He wandered into the Newsroom and asked for a job the same way he’d walk into a barbershop and ask for a haircut, and with no more idea of being turned down.”

“Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.”

“Writing is the flip side of sex - it's only good when it's over.”

“Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba….”

“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 meantime, I would drink, rest, and ponder the meaning of this mob.”

“We'd be fools not to ride this strange torpedo all the way out to the end.”

“rain is acid…
sex is death….”

“Old God sure was in a good mood when he made this place.”

“Which is not really a hell of a lot to ask, Lord, because the final incredible truth is that I am not guilty. All I did was take your gibberish seriously… and you see where it got me? My primitive Christian instincts have made me a criminal.”

“The car suddenly veered off the road and we came to a sliding halt in the gravel. I was hurled against the dashboard. My attorney was slumped over the wheel. “What’s wrong?” I yelled. “We can’t stop here. This is bat country!”

“I had come to regard him as a loner with no real past and a future so vague there was no sense talking about it.”

“There was no time for scholarly details, and, besides, I have always believed that a man can fairly be judged by the standards and taste of his choices in matters of high-level plagiarism.”

“I like this place” he said with a grin “I like to sit up here and look down at the beach and think of all the good things I could do with a Luger.”

“Richard Nixon could tell us a lot about peaking too early. He was a master of it, because it beat him every time. He never learned and neither did Bush the Elder.”

“If I had a Luger, I thought, I could drill the bastards. I leaned on one elbow and pointed a finger at the window, seeing what kind of shot I would get. Perfect. There was just enough light in the street for a good silhouette. I knew it would happen quickly, I’d have no choice: just pull the trigger and go deaf from the terrible noise, a frenzy of screaming and scratching followed by a ghastly thump of a body knocked back and down to the sidewalk.”

“I was also drunk, crazy and heavily armed at all times. People trembled and cursed when I came into a public room and started screaming in German.”

“I had a truly horrible dream last night … [Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mike Tyson and I] were on our way to a TV studio for a debate about his long-time working friendship with the powerful Bush family from Texas and how it might affect the next Bush presidency when The Terminator seizes power in Sacramento and tries to hand over the state's 54 electoral votes by election day in 2004. That is the basic plan behind Schwarzenegger running. He doesn't want to be Governor, he just wants the electoral votes to go to Bush this time.”

“Jesus man! You don't look for acid! Acid finds you when it thinks you're ready.”

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

“Today, the Panzer-like Bush machine controls all three branches of our federal government, the first time that has happened since Calvin Coolidge was in the White House. And that makes it just about impossible to mount any kind of Congressional investigation of a firmly-entrenched president like George Bush. The time has come to get deeply into football. It is the only thing we have left that ain't fixed.”

“The importance of Liking Yourself is a notion that fell heavily out of favour during the coptic, anti-ego frenzy of the acid era — but nobody guessed back then that the experiment might churn up this kind of hangover; a whole subculture of frightened illiterates with no faith in anything.”

“Bush is a natural-born loser with a filthy-rich daddy who pimped his son out to rich oil-mongers. He hates music, football and sex, in no particular order, and he is no fun at all.”

“But wow! This goofy child president we have on our hands now. He is demonstrably a fool and a failure, and this is only the summer of '03. By the summer of 2004, he might not even be living in the White House. Gone, gone, like the snows of yesteryear.”

“Ah, fortune and fame shall follow me…and I shall dwell in the world of the chosen for a few moments of fleeting ecstasy; ere the seven burly lads turn into creditors and hustle me off to debtors' prison at last.”

“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.”