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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

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Hunter S. Thompson
Age: 67 †
Born: 1937
Born: July 18
Died: 2005
Died: February 20
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Louisville
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Hunter Stockton Thompson
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There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.
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Never create anything, it will be misinterpreted, it will chain you and follow you for the rest of your life.
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel.
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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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Any candidate who'd offered a real possibility of an alternative to Nixon - someone with a different concept of the presidency - could have challenged him and come very close to beating him.
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There are times, however, and this is one of them, when even being right feels wrong. What do you say, for instance, about a generation that has been taught that rain is poison and sex is death?
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[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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We must have football. What would this country be without football in October?
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Allen [ Ginsberg] was a particular friend, one of my heroes, really. I knew him almost as long as I've been writing.
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and he would probably not agree with my conviction that a sense of humor is the main measure of sanity. But who can say for sure? Humor is a very private thing.
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No one HAS to do something he doesn’t want to do for the rest of his life. But then again, if that’s what you wind up doing, by all means convince yourself that you HAD to do it. You’ll have lots of company.
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To make a point of declaring friendship is to cheapen it. For men's emotions are very rarely put into words successfully.
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Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future.
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Las Vegas makes Reno seem like your friendly neighborhood grocery store.
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It was the kind of town that made you feel like Humphrey Bogart: you came in on a bumpy little plane, and, for some mysterious reason, got a private room with a balcony overlooking the town and the harbor then you sat there and drank until something happened.
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I was kind of relieved with the way the book [The Proud Highway] came out. It's beyond an autobiography or a biography. I never knew what was going to come up next.
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That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.
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I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.
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With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.
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They don't hardly make 'em like him any more - but just to be on the safe side, he should be castrated anyway.
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