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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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Louisville
Kentucky
Hunter Stockton Thompson
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Which is not really a hell of a lot to ask, Lord, because the final incredible truth is that I am not guilty. All I did was take your gibberish seriously... and you see where it got me? My primitive Christian instincts have made me a criminal.
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On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.
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I had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth.
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The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.
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Don't have sex in the lobby - it's usually awkward.
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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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