Quotes From "The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales From A Strange Time" By Hunter S. Thompson

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I've always considered writing the most hateful kind of work. I suspect it's a bit like fucking – which is fun only for amateurs. Old whores don't do much giggling. Nothing is fun when you have to do it – over and over, again and again... Hunter S. Thompson
In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile...
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In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely. Hunter S. Thompson
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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. Hunter S. Thompson
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This maybe the year when we finally come face to face with ourselves; finally just lay back and say it–that we are really just a nation of 220 million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns, and no qualms at all about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable. Hunter S. Thompson
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Richard Nixon has never been one of my favorite people, anyway. For years I've regarded his very existence as a monument to all the rancid genes and broken chromosomes that corrupt the possibilities of the American Dream; he was a foul caricature of himself, a man with no soul, no inner convictions, with the integrity of a hyena and the style of a poison toad. Hunter S. Thompson
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I've always considered writing the most hateful kind of work. I suspect it's a bit like fucking, which is only fun for amateurs. Old whores don't do much giggling. Hunter S. Thompson