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“Il semble de plus en plus évident que l'O. N. U. va se fendre d'une "protestation" lamentable et totalement inefficace, qui sera suivie d'une piteuse "condamnation" de l'invasion soviétique. En un sens, je me demande si une protestation de la police pourrait empêcher les gens de braquer des banques. Je vois d'ici les gros titres: "Des bandits dévalisent quatre banques - la municipalité procède à un vote en guise de protestation"”

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Lettre datée du 3 novembre 1956 adressée à Henry Stites (suite à l'annonce de l'invasion de la Hongrie par les chars soviétique, N.D.L.R.)
Correspondance, 1956

“J'ai été obligé d'arrêter la cigarette lorsque ma consommation quotidienne a dépassé le seuil fatidique des trois paquets par jour; j'en suis désormais à deux paquets de tabac à pipe par jour. En outre, et sans la moindre exagération, je bois une vingtaine de tasses de café par tranche de vingt-quatre heures et dors environ cinq heures par nuit. Bien entendu, je suis nerveux comme un chat la plupart du temps, d'humeur désagréable, voire massacrante. J'adopte ici une attitude arrogante pour ne pas dire rébarbative qui tient la plupart des crétins à bonne distance.”

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Lettre datée du 22 septembre 1956 adressée à Gerald "Ching" Tyrell
Correspondance, 1956

“Il y avait de la dinguerie dans toutes les directions, à n'importe quelle heure. Si pas de l'autre côté de la baie, alors en traversant le Golden Gate ou en descendant la 101 sur Los Altos ou La Honda… On pouvait faire naître des étincelles partout. Il y avait un fantastique sens universel que tout ce que nous faisions était bien, d'être en train de gagner…”

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Las Vegas parano (), 1972

“Et c'est vraiment pas te demander le bout du monde, Seigneur, car l'ultime et incroyable vérité est que je ne suis pas coupable. Tout ce que j'ai fait, c'est de prendre tes salades au sérieux et t'as vu où ça m'a mené? Mes instincts chrétiens primitifs ont fait de moi un criminel.”

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Las Vegas parano (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream), 1972

“Il me semble que le rôle, le devoir, l'obligation, et en effet le seul choix de l'écrivain, aujourd'hui, est de mourir de faim, aussi honorablement et avec autant de panache que possible.”

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Lettre datée du 30 mars 1959 adressée à William Faulkner
Correspondance, 1959

“Si vous pensez ne pas être en mesure de faire suivre mon mot et mon manuscrit à McKee, merci de me renvoyer l'ensemble, et je m'en chargerai personnellement. Si cela devait arriver, vous ne manqueriez pas de trouver incessamment dans votre boîte aux lettres un paquet d'oursins. Pour en tirer pleinement satisfaction: en prendre un dans chaque main, serrer bien fort.”

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Lettre datée du 22 mars 1960 adressée à Angus Cameron
Correspondance, 1960

“Aussi laisserons-nous le lecteur répondre à cette question: qui est le plus heureux, l'homme qui aura bravé la tempête de la vie et vécu, ou celui qui sera resté en sécurité sur la berge et se sera contenté d'exister?”

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Texte écrit en 1955 par Hunter Thompson "Sécurité", paru dans The Spectator, bulletin annuel de la Athenaeum Literary Association de Louisville
Correspondance, 1955

“Vous trouverez ci-joints les 20 cents que vous aura coûté la réexpédition de tout le tralala. Je ne tiens pas à avoir l'impression de vous devoir quoi que ce soit parce que j'ai bien l'intention, le jour où je vous croiserai, de vous refaire le portrait et d'éparpiller vos ratiches sur la Cinquième Avenue.”

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Correspondance, 1961

“Votre lettre était mignonne comme tout, l'ami, et votre interprétation tout à fait typique de ces imbéciles à qui l'on doit la pourriture sèche de la presse américaine, mais ce n'est pas parce que vous ne m'invitez pas que je ne vais pas venir dans votre coin. Une fois que j'y serai, faites-moi penser à, premièrement, vous latter les dents à coup de pied et, deuxièmement, à vous carrer une plaque de bronze bien profond dans l'intestin grêle.”

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Lettre datée du 30 août 1959 adressée à William J. Kennedy (Kennedy était alors rédacteur en chef du San Juan Star à Porto Rico, et dut d'abord répondre par refus à la demande d'embauche de Thompson, dans laquelle il faisait allusion à une conception du journalisme de Joseph Pulitzer dont un extrait est reproduit sur une plaque de bronze figurant sur la tour du Times à New York. Kennedy répondra par une proposition dans une lettre qu'il signera "Intestinalement vôtre, William J. Kennedy". La correspondance entre les deux hommes durera plus de quarante ans, N.D.L.R.)
Correspondance, 1959

Cotes sur le temps de Hunter S. Thompson

“Maintenant je comprends les suicides du Golden Gate. […]La ville est en fait un prolongement d'Alcatraz; une fois qu'on y est arrivé, il n'y a pas d'autres possibilités de revenir sur ses pas. Et le genre d'individu qui a fui jusqu'à San Francisco n'a pas le courage - ou le temps - de tout recommencer à zéro. Alors on essaye de tirer le meilleur parti du choix malheureux qu'on a fait; on supporte le plus longtemps possible, on picole suffisamment pour contenir la souffrance liée à la déception et à la frustration - et ensuite, si ça fait encore mal, on saute.”

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Lettre datée du 28 octobre 1960 adressée à Sandy Conklin
Correspondance, 1960

“Étranges souvenirs par cette nerveuse nuit à Las Vegas. Cinq ans après? Six? Ça fait l'effet d'une vie entière, ou au moins d'une Grande Époque — le genre de point culminant qui ne revient jamais. San Francisco autour de 1965 constituait un espace-temps tout à fait particulier où se trouver. Peut-être que ça signifiait quelque chose. Peut-être pas, à longue échéance… mais aucune explication, aucun mélange de mots ou de musique ou de souvenirs ne peut restituer le sens qu'on avait de se savoir là et vivant dans ce coin du temps et de l'univers. Quel qu'en ait été le sens…”

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Las Vegas parano (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream), 1972

“J'ai suivi quelques cours d'écriture à Columbia pendant mon temps libre, ai énormément appris sur la manière dont se mènent les affaires journalistiques, jusqu'à éprouver désormais un saint mépris pour le métier. Je pense pour ma part qu'il est fort dommage qu'un secteur potentiellement aussi dynamique soit entre les mains de nazes, de vauriens et de pisse-copies frappés de myopies et d'apathie, bouffis de satisfaction, généralement confits dans un marais de médiocrité stagnante. Si c'est ce à quoi vous essayez d'échapper avec le Sun, alors il me semble que j'aimerais travailler pour vous.”

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Lettre datée du 1er octobre 1958 adressée à Jack Scott du Vancouver Sun (il s'agit en effet d'une lettre de motivation écrite en état d'ébriété, N.D.L.R.)
Correspondance, 1958

Hunter S. Thompson: Citations en anglais

“The ugly fallout from the American Dream has been coming down on us at a pretty consistent rate since Sitting Bull's time — and the only real difference now, with Election Day '72 only a few weeks away, is that we seem to be on the verge of ratifying the fallout and forgetting the Dream itself.”

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1970s, Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 (1973)

“A man has to BE something; he has to matter.”

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Letter to Hume Logan (22 April 1958), p. 118
1990s, The Proud Highway : The Fear and Loathing Letters Volume I (1997)

“Any lawyer who says there's no such thing as rape should be hauled out to a public place by three large perverts and buggered at high noon, with all of his clients watching.”

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1960s, Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs (1966)

“The utter collapse of this Profoundly criminal Bush conspiracy will come none too soon for people like me… The massive plundering of the U. S. Treasury and all its resources has been almost on a scale that is criminally insane, and has literally destroyed the lives of millions of American people and American families. Exactly. You and me, sport — we are the ones who are going to suffer, and suffer massively. This is going to be just like the Book of Revelation said it was going to be — the end of the world as we knew it.”

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"The Nation's Capital" (29 July 2003)
2000s

“When I went into the clinic last April 30, George Bush was about 50 points ahead of his closest Democratic opponent in next year's Presidential Election. When I finally escaped from the horrible place, less than three weeks later, Bush's job-approval ratings had been cut in half — and even down into single digits, in some states — and the Republican Party was panicked and on the run. It was a staggering reversal in a very short time, even shorter than it took for his equally crooked father to drop from 93 percent approval, down to as low as 43 percent and even 41 percent in the last doomed days of the first doomed Bush Administration. After that, he was Bill Clinton's punching bag.”

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2000s, Welcome to the Big Darkness (2003)

“It ain't much, but it's the only weapon we have against the Greedheads.”

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On voting, in "My 49er Habit" (4 November 2002), also published in Hey Rube : Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness (2004)
2000s

“Disgusting as he usually was, on rare occasions he showed flashes of stagnant intelligence. But his brain was so rotted with drink and dissolute living that whenever he put it to work it behaved like an old engine that had gone haywire from being dipped in lard.”

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1990s, The Rum Diary (1998)

“The Rumsfeld-Cheney axis has self-destructed right in front of our eyes, along with the once-proud Perle-Wolfowitz bund that is turning to wax. They somehow managed to blow it all, like a gang of kids on a looting spree, between January and July, or even less. It is genuinely incredible. The U. S. Treasury is empty, we are losing that stupid, fraudulent chickencrap War in Iraq, and every country in the world except a handful of Corrupt Brits despises us. We are losers, and that is the one unforgiveable sin in America.”

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2000s, Welcome to the Big Darkness (2003)

“There is a huge body of evidence to support the notion that me and the police were put on this earth to do extremely different things and never to mingle professionally with each other, except at official functions, when we all wear ties and drink heavily and whoop it up like the natural, good-humored wild boys that we know in our hearts that we are. … These occasions are rare, but they happen — despite the forked tongue of fate that has put us forever on different paths…”

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"Fear and Loathing in Elko" Rolling Stone (23 January 1992)
1990s

“Music has always been a matter of energy to me, a question of fuel. Sentimental people call it inspiration, but what they really mean is fuel. I have always needed fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.”

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

“Sacrificing good men to journalism is like sending William Faulkner to work for Time magazine.”

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Letter to Jerome H. Walker (7 December 1958), p. 142
1990s, The Proud Highway : The Fear and Loathing Letters Volume I (1997)

“To Richard Milhous Nixon, who never let me down.”

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Hunter S. Thompson livre The Great Shark Hunt

epigraph to Gonzo Papers, Vol I : The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time (1979), p. 7
1970s

“But speaking of rules, you've been arrested dozens of times in your life. Specific incidents aside, what's common to these run-ins? Where do you stand vis-à-vis the law?
"Goddammit. Yeah, I have. First, there's a huge difference between being arrested and being guilty. Second, see, the law changes and I don't. How I stand vis-à-vis the law at any given moment depends on the law. The law can change from state to state, from nation to nation, from city to city. I guess I have to go by a higher law. How's that? Yeah, I consider myself a road man for the lords of karma."”

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Salon interview (3 February 2003) http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/02/03/thompson/index_np.html
2000s

“You'd be surprised at the things people will do in order to get their names or pictures in the paper.”

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Letter to Judy Stellings (18 November 1956), p. 30
1990s, The Proud Highway : The Fear and Loathing Letters Volume I (1997)

“Why are we seeing George Bush on TV every two hours for nine or ten days at a time, like some kind of mutated Mr. Rogers clone? Something is dangerously wrong in any country where a monumentally-failed backwoods politician can scare our national TV networks so totally that they will give him anything he wants.”

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"The Bush League" (9 September 2003)
2000s

“If the right people had been in charge of Nixon's funeral, his casket would have been launched into one of those open-sewage canals that empty into the ocean just south of Los Angeles. He was a swine of a man and a jabbering dupe of a president. Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning. Even his funeral was illegal. He was queer in the deepest way. His body should have been burned in a trash bin.”

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1990s, He Was A Crook (1994)

“A nervous blonde nymphet who thought that politics was some kind of game played by old people, like bridge.”

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1970s, Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 (1973)

“Anything that gets the adrenalin moving like a 440 volt blast in a copper bathtub is good for the reflexes and keeps the veins free of cholesterol… but too many adrenaline rushes in any given time span has the same effect on the nervous system as too many electro-shock treatments are said to have on the brain: after a while you start burning out the circuits. When a jackrabbit gets addicted to road-running, its only a matter of time before he gets smashed — and when a journalist turns into a politics junkie he will sooner or later start raving and babbling in print about things that only a person who has Been There can possibly understand.”

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1970s, Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 (1973)

“Tiny hurts people. When he loses his temper he goes completely out of control and his huge body becomes a lethal weapon. It is difficult to see what role he might play in the Great Society.”

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1960s, Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs (1966)

“The stewardess reached down to fasten Bloor's seatbelt. I saw his left arm snake out and settle affectionately around her shoulders. Good God! I thought. This is it. I could see the headlines in tomorrow's News. But the stewardess only smiled and backed off a few steps, dismissing Bloor's crude advance with a slap at his arm and an icy professional smile. I tried to return it, but my face was not working properly.”

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1990s, The Rum Diary (1998)

“The city's frightening now. That's the basis of my reaction to Las Vegas. It's not the city I wrote about. It's not the same place at all. You'll notice that even the — what do you call them?”

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milestone or trademark casinos are now gone.
"30 years after FALILV: Hunter S. Thompson on Las Vegas Today'" Las Vegas City Life (7 June 2002)
2000s

“Is it possible that he has already abandoned all hope of getting re-elected? Or does he plan to cancel the Election altogether by declaring a national military emergency with terrorists closing in from all sides, leaving him with no choice but to launch a huge bomb immediately?... Desperate men do desperate things, and stupid men do stupid things. We are in for a desperately stupid summer.”

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"Bush's Disturbing Sleeping Disorder" (18 February 2004)
2000s

“If we get chased out of Iraq with our tail between our legs, that will be the fifth consecutive Third-world country with no hint of a Navy or an Air Force to have whipped us in the past 40 years.”

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"Am I Turning Into a Pervert?" (18 November 2003)
2000s

“The massive, frustrated energies of a mainly young, disillusioned electorate that has long since abandoned the idea that we all have a duty to vote. This is like being told you have a duty to buy a new car, but you have to choose immediately between a Ford and a Chevy.”

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1970s, Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 (1973)

“The slow-rising central horror of "Watergate" is not that it might grind down to the reluctant impeachment of a vengeful thug of a president whose entire political career has been a monument to the same kind of cheap shots and treachery he finally got nailed for, but that we might somehow fail to learn something from it.”

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Rolling Stone (2 August 1973)
1970s

“If any part of it doesn’t seem to make sense, by all means call it to my attention. I’m not trying to send you out “on the road” in search of Valhalla, but merely pointing out that it is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it. There is more to it than that— no one HAS to do something he doesn’t want to do for the rest of his life. But then again, if that’s what you wind up doing, by all means convince yourself that you HAD to do it. You’ll have lots of company.”

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"Letter to Hume Logan" April 22, 1958. Excerpted in 'Letters of Note' by Shaun Usher.
1950s

“Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have to know the material you're writing about before you alter it.”

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Associated Press interview (2003) http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3404272/
2000s

“It was the kind of town that made you feel like Humphrey Bogart: you came in on a bumpy little plane, and, for some mysterious reason, got a private room with a balcony overlooking the town and the harbor; then you sat there and drank until something happened. I felt a tremendous distance between me and everything real.”

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1990s, The Rum Diary (1998)

“The 2004 presidential election will be a matter of life or death for the whole nation. We are sick today, and we will be even sicker tomorrow if this wretched half-bright swine of a president gets re-elected in November.”

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"The Big Finale Was a Big Disappointment" (6 April 2004)
2000s

“I returned to the Holiday Inn — where they have a swimming pool and air-conditioned rooms — to consider the paradox of a nation that has given so much to those who preach the glories of rugged individualism from the security of countless corporate sinecures, and so little to that diminishing band of yesterday's refugees who still practice it, day by day, in a tough, rootless and sometimes witless style that most of us have long since been weaned away from.”

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Hunter S. Thompson livre The Great Shark Hunt

Gonzo Papers, Vol. 1: The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time (1979)
1970s

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