I felt a strange tightness coming over me, and I reacted instinctively โ for the first time in a long, long while โ 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 youโve lost a few, you develop a certain instinct that lets you know when itโs time to get the thing off your wrist and into a safe pocket.
Hunter S. ThompsonIt's in my interest, in ours perhaps, or maybe the interests of the greater good, for me to smoke a joint, and calm down.
Hunter S. ThompsonBecause the writer must be a participant in the scene, while he's writing it โ or at least taping it, or even sketching it. Or all three. Probably the closest analogy to the ideal would be a film director/producer who writes his own scripts, does his own camera work and somehow manages to film himself in action, as the protagonist or at least a main character.
Hunter S. ThompsonI felt like a monster reincarnation of Horatio Alger: A man on the move, and just sick enough to be totally confident.
Hunter S. ThompsonI was not proud of what I had learned but I never doubted that it was worth knowing.
Hunter S. Thompson["Where the Buffalo Roam" is] horrible pile of crap. [Bill] Murray did a good job. But it was a bad script. You can't beat a bad script. It was just a horrible movie. A cartoon. But Bill Murray did a good job. We actually wrote and shot several different endings and beginnings and they all got cut out in the end. It was disappointing.
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