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You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.
Hunter S. Thompson
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Hunter S. Thompson
Age: 67 †
Born: 1937
Born: July 18
Died: 2005
Died: February 20
Autobiographer
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Journalist
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Politician
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Louisville
Kentucky
Hunter Stockton Thompson
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I don't think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It's lonely out here.
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For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
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If you can't make yourself understood by your friends, you'll be in trouble when your enemies come for you.
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I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn't know I could commit suicide at any time.
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There’s a lot of things wrong with this country, but one of the few things still right with it is that a man can steer clear of the organized bullshit if he really wants to. It’s a goddamned luxury, and if I were you, I’d take advantage of it while you can.
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Most of my stuff is just a series of false leads. I'll approach a story as a subject and then make a whole bunch of different runs at the lead. They're all good writing but they don't connect. So I end up having to string leads together.
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There might be some serious fun in politics.
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Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.
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It's much more fun to run a political campaign than it is to be the candidate.
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