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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
Essayist
Journalist
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Politician
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Louisville
Kentucky
Hunter Stockton Thompson
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Some people will say that words like scum and rotten are wrong for Objective Journalism -- which is true, but they miss the point. It was the built-in blind spots of the Objective rules and dogma that allowed Nixon to slither into the White House in the first place.
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A man who has blown all his options can't afford the luxury of changing his ways. He has to capitalize on whatever he has left, and he can't afford to admit - no matter how often he's reminded of it - that every day of his life takes him farther and farther down a blind alley.
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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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But our trip was different. It was a classic affirmation of everything right and true and decent in the national character. It was a gross, physical salute to the fantastic possibilities of life in this country-but only for those with true grit. And we were chock full of that.
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Whatever he might have denied me was unimportant it was the fact that he could deny me anything at all, even what I didn't want
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Perceive is the word that became in the '72 campaign what charisma was for the 1960, '64 and even the '68 campaigns. Perceive is the new key word. When you say perceive you imply the difference between what the candidate is and the way the public or the voters see him.
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Jim Harrison is someone I always enjoy, one of the great contemporary writers. I like Tim Ferris' Big Boom Theory. I'm getting into a different kind of reading, not straight novels.
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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.
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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've always considered writing the most hateful kind of work. I suspect it's a bit like fucking - which is fun only for amateurs. Old whores don't do much giggling.
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There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.
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I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
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I knew a Buddhist once, and I've hated myself ever since.
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Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
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There is no fool like a careless gambler who starts taking victory for granted.
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It never got weird enough for me.
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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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Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday.
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Paranoia is just another mask for ignorance. The truth, when you finally chase it down is almost always far worse than your darkest visions and fears
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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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