"With the truth so dull and depressing,..." - Quote by Hunter S Thompson
With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.
More by Hunter S Thompson
“There is a progression of understanding vis-à-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance --physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way. . . Which is exactly the way it should be . . .”
“I felt a strange tightness coming over me, and I reacted instinctively – for the first time in a long, long while – by slipping my notebook into my belt and reaching down to take off my watch. The first thing to go in a street fight is your watch, and once you’ve lost a few, you develop a certain instinct that lets you know when it’s time to get the thing off your wrist and into a safe pocket.”
“Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.”
More on Truth
“Serious misfortunes, originating in misrepresentation, frequently flow and spread before they can be dissipated by truth.”
“It seems to be my destiny to discourse on truth, insofar as I discover it, in such a way that all possible authority is simultaneously demolished.”
“A thief loves the night. I am day. I reveal essences.”
More on Reality
“and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality.”
“Life always is now. Life is inseparable from now.”
“Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.”