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The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.
Hunter S. Thompson
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Hunter S. Thompson
Age: 67 †
Born: 1937
Born: July 18
Died: 2005
Died: February 20
Autobiographer
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Louisville
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Hunter Stockton Thompson
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You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.
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I don't think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It's lonely out here.
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I measure my life in pages. If I have pages at dawn, it's been a good night.
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We are living in dangerously weird times now. Smart people just shrug and admit they're dazed and confused. The only ones left with any confidence at all are the New Dumb. It is the beginning of the end of our world as we knew it. Doom is the operative ethic.
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I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
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If you have half a story and you don't know the rest, you use what you have to pry the rest out of someone.
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North Vegas is where you go if you're a hooker turning forty and the syndicate men on the strip decide you're no longer much good for business out there with the high rollers.
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Gonzo journalism is a style of reporting based on William Faulkner's idea that the best fiction is far more true than any kind of journalism.
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I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
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If you consider the great journalists in history, you don't see too many objective journalists on that list.
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We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.
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Jesus! Did I SAY that? Or just think it? Was I talking? Did they hear me? I glanced over at my attorney, but he seemed oblivious.
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I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes.
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Freedom, Truth, Honour you could rattle off a hundred such words and behind every one of them would gather a thousand punks, pompous little farts, waving the banner with one hand and reaching under the table with the other.
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