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Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.
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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Louisville
Kentucky
Hunter Stockton Thompson
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I don't think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It's lonely out here.
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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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Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.
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I think I'm one of the most patriotic people that I've ever encountered in America. I consider myself a bedrock patriot. I participate very actively in local politics, because my voice might be worthwhile. I participate in a meaningful way - not by donations I work at it.
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Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.
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I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is risky territory for people with generosity of spirit. Beware.
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The regrets I have are so minor. You know, would I leave my Keith Richards hat, with the silver skull on it, on the stool at the coffee shop at LaGuardia? I wouldn't do that again. But overall, no, I don't have any regrets.
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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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There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.
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and the sad notes floated out to the patio and hung in the trees like birds too tired to fly
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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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As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity.
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