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I've already become a mastodon in print - I don't see a consciousness for my kind of journalism.

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Hunter S. Thompson
Age: 67 †
Born: 1937
Born: July 18
Died: 2005
Died: February 20
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Louisville
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It is like sitting in a traffic jam on the San Diego Freeway with your windows rolled up and Portuguese music booming out of the surround-sound speakers while animals gnaw on your neck and diseased bill collectors hammer on your doors with golf clubs.
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A cap of good acid costs $5, and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony, with God singing solo and the Holy Ghost on drums.
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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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Politics is the art of controlling your environment.
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Journalism, to me, is just another drug - a free ride to scenes I'd probably miss if I stayed straight.
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If you can't make yourself understood by your friends, you'll be in trouble when your enemies come for you.
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It never got weird enough for me.
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They're gonna make it look like suicide. I know how those bastards think.
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Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run, but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant.
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Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can't reach.
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On some nights, I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.
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We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear
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There's no point in getting into politics at all unless you plan to lash things around.
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Platitudes are safe, because they're easy to wink at, but truth is something else again.
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel.
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One of them is knowing the difference between Morality and Wisdom. Morality is temporary, Wisdom is permanent… Ho ho. Take that one to bed with you tonight.
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I measure my life in pages. If I have pages at dawn, it's been a good night.
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