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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.
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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I think George Washington owned guns. I've never seen any contradiction with that.
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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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I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn't know I could commit suicide at any time.
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On my tombstone they will carve, IT NEVER GOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME.
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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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The first paragraph. The last paragraph. That's where the story is going and how it's going to end. Or else you'll go off in a hundred different directions.
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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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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.
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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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