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Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.
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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Nixon had the unique ability to make his enemies seem honorable, and we developed a keen sense of fraternity. Some of my best friends have hated Nixon all their lives. My mother hates Nixon, my son hates Nixon, I hate Nixon, and this hatred has brought us together.
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...the crazy never die.
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We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear
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Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
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If you consider the great journalists in history, you don't see too many objective journalists on that list.
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Every reaction is a learning process every significant experience alters your perspective. So it would seem foolish, would it not, to adjust our lives to the demands of a goal we see from a different angle everyday? How could we ever hope to accomplish anything anther than galloping neurosis?
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A little bit of this town goes a very long way. After five days in Vegas you feel like you've been here for five years.
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In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone.
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If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
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It was the kind of town that made you feel like Humphrey Bogart: you came in on a bumpy little plane, and, for some mysterious reason, got a private room with a balcony overlooking the town and the harbor then you sat there and drank until something happened.
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On my tombstone they will carve, IT NEVER GOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME.
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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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The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it.
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Allen [ Ginsberg] was a particular friend, one of my heroes, really. I knew him almost as long as I've been writing.
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At age 22 I set what I insist is an all-time record for distance hitchhiking in Bermuda shorts: 3,700 miles in three weeks.
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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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Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.
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