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'Crazy' is a term of art 'Insane' is a term of law. Remember that, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble.
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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Hunter Stockton Thompson
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A word to the wise is infuriating.
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One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won't have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.
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Like most of the others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser.
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I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom and pure mathematics
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Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond.
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On my tombstone they will carve, IT NEVER GOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME.
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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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All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes.
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I got tired and embarrassed by the constant poverty of those years. I told Doug [ Brinkley] this is really going to be a horrible downer of a book [The Proud Highway] if all it's going to be is about being broke. I didn't like being reminded of desperation at all times.
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There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother's milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it, or there won't be any winners.
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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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By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.
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It's the difference between watching a football game between two teams you don't care about, and watching a game where you have some kind of personal identity with one of the teams, if only a huge bet.
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In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile.
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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.
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