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I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Hunter S. Thompson
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Hunter S. Thompson
Age: 67 †
Born: 1937
Born: July 18
Died: 2005
Died: February 20
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I may sound a little black, but I'm really pretty well adjusted.
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It's the difference between watching a football game between two teams you don't care about, and watching a game where you have some kind of personal identity with one of the teams, if only a huge bet.
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Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can't reach.
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Sane is rich and powerful. Insane is wrong and poor and weak. The rich are free, the poor are put in cages. Res Ipsa Loquitur, amen. Mahalo.
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There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.
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Platitudes are safe, because they're easy to wink at, but truth is something else again.
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In four short years he has turned our country from a prosperous nation at peace into a desperately indebted nation at war. But so what? He is the President of the United States, and you're not. Love it or leave it.
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Timothy Leary and I kept the same hours. He believed, as I do, that “After midnight, all things are possible.
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I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes.
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