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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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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She was wearing the same clothes, but now she looked haggard and dirty. The delicate illusions that get us through life can only stand so much strain.
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Given my calling I had to stumble across people who felt the same way. I was a young reporter.
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Some people will say that words like scum and rotten are wrong for Objective Journalism -- which is true, but they miss the point. It was the built-in blind spots of the Objective rules and dogma that allowed Nixon to slither into the White House in the first place.
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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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Some people will tell you that slow is good - but I'm here to tell you that fast is better. I've always believed this, in spite of the trouble it's caused me. Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba.
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But our trip was different. It was a classic affirmation of everything right and true and decent in the national character. It was a gross, physical salute to the fantastic possibilities of life in this country-but only for those with true grit. And we were chock full of that.
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There is nothing worse than a man in the throws of an ether bender.
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The next MVP of the Super Bowl is just as likely to have been a full-time grocery store bagger last year as a Heisman Trophy winner.
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The waitress had the appearance of a very old hooker who had finally found her place in life
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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
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Fear is just another word for ignorance.
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Which is not really a hell of a lot to ask, Lord, because the final incredible truth is that I am not guilty. All I did was take your gibberish seriously... and you see where it got me? My primitive Christian instincts have made me a criminal.
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...the crazy never die.
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It never got weird enough for me.
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Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.
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I noticed at once that Depp had a dangerously energized intelligence . . . He was a suave little brute, but he had a wicked sense of humor and a rare instinct for escalation.
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And the whole Bush family, from Texas, should be boiled in poisoned oil.
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Whatever he might have denied me was unimportant it was the fact that he could deny me anything at all, even what I didn't want
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We are all wired into a survival trip, now.
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Old elephants limp off to the hills to die old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves to death with huge cars.
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