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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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Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can't reach.
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Reality itself is too twisted.
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There was madness in any direction, at any hour. You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning.
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Turn the goddam music up! My heart feels like an alligator!
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Most people who deal in words don't have much faith in them and I am no exception.
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I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
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I never knew where I was going, but I ripped the tits off of everything that got in my way. By the time they figured me out, it was too late.
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Sounds of life and movement, people getting ready and people giving up, the sound of hope and the sound of hanging on, and behind them all, the quiet, deadly ticking of a thousand hungry clocks.
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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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I guess I'm just courtly until people get in my way. You'll find most Southerners are like that.
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Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.
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We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and - in spite of True Romance magazines - we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way.
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Journalism, to me, is just another drug - a free ride to scenes I'd probably miss if I stayed straight.
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Fear is just another word for ignorance.
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This is the fast lane, folks...and some of us like it here.
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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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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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