Hunter S. Thompson cytaty

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„Kto jest szczęśliwszym człowiekiem - ten, który stawił czoła burzy życia i przetrwał, czy ten, który pozostał bezpiecznie na brzegu i tylko egzystował?”

„Dziennikarstwo to nie zawód ani branża. To tylko mizerna szansa na zaistnienie dla popaprańców i odmieńców – fałszywe drzwi na zaplecze prawdziwego życia, obrzydliwa, zaszczana nora zabita dechami przez inspektorów budowlanych, ale dość głęboka, by każdy pijaczek mógł stoczyć się do niej z chodnika, żeby tam walić gruchę jak małpa w zoo.”

„Mieliśmy dwa worki marihuany, siedemdziesiąt pięć kulek meskaliny, pięć bibułek nasączonych ostrym kwasem, solniczkę nabitą kokainą, i całą galaktykę tęczowych dołersów, głupawek i nakręcaczy… a także ćwiartkę tequili, ćwiartkę rumu, skrzynkę budweisera, pół litra eteru i sporo amylu.”

„Słowo mądrości jest irytujące.”

„Dla każdej chwili triumfu, dla każdego wystąpienia piękna, wiele dusz musi być gwałconych.”

„Nieważne, jak bardzo chciałem tych wszystkich rzeczy, na które potrzebowałem pieniędzy, zawsze istniał jakiś diabelski prąd spychający mnie w przeciwnym kierunku – w stronę anarchii, nędzy i szaleństwa.”

„Strach jest tylko synonimem niewiedzy.”

„Dobrzy ludzie piją dobre piwo.”

„Byliśmy wtedy wojownikami, a nasze plemię było silne jak rzeka.”

„Nie lubię reklamować dragów, alkoholu, przemocy czy szaleństwa, ale oddawały mi one zawsze wielką przysługę.”

„Zawsze jest lepiej zgrywać wariata, aby później wydawać się kimś zupełnie normalnym.”

„Perspektywa pójścia na proces z adwokatem, który uznaje całe swoje życie w stylu „Przestępczość w Toku” nie jest zbyt szczęśliwa.”

„Nie ma nic bardziej nieodpowiedzialnego i bezradnego, niż człowiek w ciągu eterowym.”

„(…) obłęd królował wszędzie i o każdej porze, wszędzie mogłeś krzesać iskrę, mieliśmy kosmiczne poczucie sensu naszych działań.”

“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.”