{"author":"Hunter S. Thompson","author_id":"Hunter+S.+Thompson","total_quotes":161,"quotes":[{"text":"The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.","author":"Hunter S. Thompson","tags":["money","good","heart "],"id":203,"author_id":"Hunter+S.+Thompson"},{"text":"Rude people will now \u0026 then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it's because I'm Smart... But that is a lie: The real reason is because I'm an incurable Gambling addict.","author":"Hunter S. Thompson","tags":["smart","lie","me "],"id":493,"author_id":"Hunter+S.+Thompson"},{"text":"I felt a little guilty about jangling the poor bugger's brains with that evil fantasy. But what the hell? Anybody who wanders around the world saying, 'Hell yes, I'm from Texas,' deserves whatever happens to him.","author":"Hunter S. Thompson","tags":["fate","texas"],"id":16209,"author_id":"Hunter+S.+Thompson"},{"text":"Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond.","author":"Hunter S. Thompson","tags":["news","good news","diamond "],"id":23942,"author_id":"Hunter+S.+Thompson"},{"text":"When you're asked to stay out of a bar you don't just punch the owner--you come back with your army and tear the place down, destroy the whole edifice and everything it stands for. No compromise. If a man gets wise, mash his face. If a woman snubs you, rape her. This is the thinking, if not the reality, behind the whole Hell's Angels act.","author":"Hunter S. Thompson","tags":["battle","philosophy","retaliation"],"id":34056,"author_id":"Hunter+S.+Thompson"},{"text":"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.","author":"Hunter S. Thompson","tags":["truth"],"id":34077,"author_id":"Hunter+S.+Thompson"},{"text":"Coming of age in a fascist police state will not be a barrel of fun for anybody, much less for people like me, who are not inclined to suffer Nazis gladly and feel only contempt for the cowardly flag-suckers who would gladly give up their outdated freedom to live for the mess of pottage they have been conned into believing will be freedom from fear.Ho ho ho. Let's not get carried away here. Freedom was yesterday in this country. Its value has been discounted. The only freedom we truly crave today is freedom from Dumbness. Nothing else matters.","author":"Hunter S. Thompson","tags":["beat-generation","country","fear","freedom","state","usa","value","writer"],"id":37995,"author_id":"Hunter+S.+Thompson"},{"text":"A totally befuddled voter may look at a Vote for McGovern sign and do just that.","author":"Hunter S. Thompson","tags":["democracy","elections","humor","hunter-s-thompson"],"id":38430,"author_id":"Hunter+S.+Thompson"},{"text":"There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.","author":"Hunter S. Thompson","tags":["having fun","smart","fun "],"id":39909,"author_id":"Hunter+S.+Thompson"},{"text":"It was almost May. I knew that New York was getting warm now, that London was wet, that Rome was hot -- and I was on Vieques, where it was always hot and where New York and London and Rome were just names on a map.","author":"Hunter S. Thompson","tags":["loneliness","seasons","south-america","travelling","world"],"id":40884,"author_id":"Hunter+S.+Thompson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":161,"pages":17,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}