Hunter S. Thompson Quotes About Reality
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No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs. Reality itself is too twisted.
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I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination.
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Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.
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I haven't found a drug yet that can get you anywhere near as high as a sitting at a desk writing, trying to imagine a story no matter how bizarre it is, [or] going out and getting into the weirdness of reality and doing a little time on the Proud Highway.
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The Sixties were an era of extreme reality. I miss the smell of tear gas. I miss the fear of getting beaten.
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Reality itself is too twisted.
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The brutal reality of politics would be probably intolerable without drugs.
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Richard Nixon was an evil man - evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency.
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Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow confines of most men's reality. Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of 'the rat race' is not yet final.
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Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have to know the material you're writing about before you alter it.
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