Hunter S. Thompson · 272 pages
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“If we start electing presidents on the basis of their sexual purity, some real monsters will get into the White House.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, quote from Better Than Sex: Confessions of a Political Junkie
“The strategy worked like a charm, and in 1980 Jimmy Carter was swept away like offal by the “Reagan Revolution,” which ushered in eight years of berserk looting of the federal treasury and the economic crippling of the middle class. That was the eighties, folks. That was the feeding frenzy of the New Rich, who found themselves wallowing in excess profits as their maximum income tax rate got chopped down to 31 percent and who were welcomed like brothers in the White House at all hours of the day or night.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, quote from Better Than Sex: Confessions of a Political Junkie
“ROSS PEROT was the best thing that happened in American politics since Richard Nixon acquired a taste for gin. In both cases, the political dialogue of the day was enriched by spontaneous gibberish that entertained the wrong people and made the right ones question their faith.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, quote from Better Than Sex: Confessions of a Political Junkie
“NOT EVERYBODY is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is. They are addicts, and they are guilty and they do lie and cheat and steal—like all junkies. And when they get in a frenzy, they will sacrifice anything and anybody to feed their cruel and stupid habit, and there is no cure for it.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, quote from Better Than Sex: Confessions of a Political Junkie
“You have to be very mean to get a laugh on the campaign trail. There is no such thing as paranoia.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, quote from Better Than Sex: Confessions of a Political Junkie
“I had been up all night with my old friend Allen Ginsberg, the poet, and we had both slid into the abyss of whiskey madness and full-bore substance abuse. It was wonderful,”
― Hunter S. Thompson, quote from Better Than Sex: Confessions of a Political Junkie
“It was an educated fear of the coming shit-rain”
― Hunter S. Thompson, quote from Better Than Sex: Confessions of a Political Junkie
“I beat him like a mad dog with mange every time I got a chance, and I am proud of it. He was scum.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, quote from Better Than Sex: Confessions of a Political Junkie
“Even now, more than 30 years later, I still judge people on the basis of whether they voted for Jack Kennedy in 1960, or for Richard Nixon...Those bastards are scarred forever, and I'm not. At least not for that. Hell, it was an honor to be able to vote against Richard Nixon - and it will be an honor on November 3 [1992] to vote against George Bush and everything he stands for.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, quote from Better Than Sex: Confessions of a Political Junkie
“Look what happened the last time a Republican president tried to fix a doomed national economy. Remember Herbert Hoover?”
― Hunter S. Thompson, quote from Better Than Sex: Confessions of a Political Junkie
“because it is a very elegant feeling to wake up in the morning and go down to your neighborhood polling place and come away feeling proud of the way you voted.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, quote from Better Than Sex: Confessions of a Political Junkie
“Losing in New Hampshire was usually permanent, and winning was a guaranteed fast ride to somewhere—maybe the White House—or at least a fiery exit. Probably soon, but so what?”
― Hunter S. Thompson, quote from Better Than Sex: Confessions of a Political Junkie
Hunter S. Thompson
Born place: in Louisville, Kentucky, The United States
Born date July 18, 1937
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“I tell Ki that I'm learning about words and stories to help our family. He says he's protecting our family with his knife. Who is right? Which is best, protecting with words or with his knife?"
She is instant, certain, and solemn, and there is no misunderstanding her meaning.
"Fight ignorance with words. Fight evil with your knife. Tell you husband, Ki, that he is right.”
― Camron Wright, quote from The Rent Collector
“Am I the only one getting a god-awful Dolores Umbridge vibe off of her?”
― Madeleine Roux, quote from Sanctum
“Tis I, my sweet, your rough-and-ready man
Well hid by night to beg your fine white hand
Though king of bandits, draped in chains of gold
I'm poor in love and suffer grief untold”
― Shannon Hale, quote from Palace of Stone
“Frank actually looked shaken as he asked, "Does she get like that often?"
"Nope, you seem to rile her." Cord knew quite well how very few women had ever disconcerted his brother.
"I rile her? She wants to kill you, dismember you, and disperse your body parts, and I rile her?”
― Ellen O'Connell, quote from Eyes of Silver, Eyes of Gold
“And are you married, sir?" Mrs Winstanley asked Tom. "Oh no, madam!" said Tom.
"Yes," David reminded him. "You are, you know."
Tom made a motion with his hand to suggest that it was a situation susceptible to different interpretations.
The truth was that he had a Christian wife. At fifteen she had had a wicked little face, almond-shaped eyes and a most capricious nature. Tom had constantly compared her to a kitten. In her twenties she had been a swan; in her thirties a vixen; and then in rapid succession a bitch, a viper, a cockatrice and, finally, a pig. What animals he might have compared her to now no one knew. She was well past ninety now and for forty years or more she had been confined to a set of apartments in a distant part of the Castel des Tours saunz Nowmbre under strict instructions not to shew herself, while her husband waited impatiently for someone to come and tell him she was dead.”
― Susanna Clarke, quote from The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories
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