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In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
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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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
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As things stand now, I am going to be a writer. I'm not sure that I'm going to be a good one or even a self-supporting one, but until the dark thumb of fate presses me to the dust and says 'you are nothing', I will be a writer.
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and the sad notes floated out to the patio and hung in the trees like birds too tired to fly
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A man never stoops so low as when he rises to the challenge of politics.
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I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my instincts were right.
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