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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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Kentucky
Hunter Stockton Thompson
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The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.
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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.
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You almost have to be a rock star to generate the kind of fever you need to survive in American politics.
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It will be a Religious War, a sort of Christian Jihad, fueled by religious hatred and led by merciless fanatics on both sides. It will be guerilla warfare on a global scale, with no front lines and no identifiable enemy.
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I knew a Buddhist once, and I've hated myself ever since.
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Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives... and to the good life, whatever it is and wherever it happens to be.
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Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.
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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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Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.
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Turn the goddam music up! My heart feels like an alligator!
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I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.
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Every GOP administration since 1952 has let the Military-Industrial Complex loot the Treasury and plunge the nation into debt on the excuse of a wartime economic emergency.
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Ah, lives there a man with soul so dead, who never to himself hath said As he hunched and rolled in his comfortable bed: To hell with the rent . . . I'll drink instead!
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Duke is an ugly word in Kentucky. Nothing in the world compares to the joy of beating those hateful swine from Duke.
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We have bigger things to brood on and enormous reasons for wallowing in terminal craziness until we finally hit bottom.
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America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
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There is nothing worse than a man in the throws of an ether bender.
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If Sunday is the Lord's day, then Saturday belongs to the Devil. It is the only night of the week when he gives out Free passes to the Late show at the Too Much Fun Club.
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On my tombstone they will carve, IT NEVER GOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME.
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Sounds of life and movement, people getting ready and people giving up, the sound of hope and the sound of hanging on, and behind them all, the quiet, deadly ticking of a thousand hungry clocks.
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