„Too weird to live, too rare to die!“
— Hunter S. Thompson, libro Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Fuente: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Fecha de nacimiento: 18. Julio 1937
Fecha de muerte: 20. Febrero 2005
Otros nombres: Хантер Стоктон Томпсон, هانتر اس. تامپسون
Hunter Stockton Thompson fue un periodista y escritor estadounidense, creador e icono del periodismo gonzo, un modelo de periodismo que plantea eliminar la división entre sujeto y objeto, ficción y no ficción, y objetividad y subjetividad. Wikipedia
„Too weird to live, too rare to die!“
— Hunter S. Thompson, libro Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Fuente: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
„I was not proud of what I had learned but I never doubted that it was worth knowing.“
— Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary
Fuente: The Rum Diary
— Hunter S. Thompson, libro Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Fuente: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
„I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.“
— Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary
Fuente: The Rum Diary
— Hunter S. Thompson, libro Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Fuente: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
— Hunter S. Thompson, libro Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Fuente: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
„It never got weird enough for me.“
Variante: On my tombstone they will carve, "IT NEVER GOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME.
Fuente: Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century
Fuente: Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century
2000s, Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century (2004)
1960s, Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs (1966)
1990s, The Rum Diary (1998)
Variante: Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!
Fuente: The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
„When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.“
— Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
"Fear and Loathing at the Super Bowl" (Rolling Stone #155, (28 February 1974); republished in Gonzo Papers, Vol. 1: The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time (1979), p. 49
1970s
Fuente: Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
„Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why.“
— Hunter S. Thompson, libro The Curse of Lono
Fuente: The Curse of Lono
„We can't stop here, this is bat country!“
— Hunter S. Thompson, libro Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Fuente: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
— Hunter S. Thompson, libro Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Fuente: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
"Security" (1951); excerpted in Outlaw Journalist: The Life & Times of Hunter S. Thompson (2008), page 15
1950s