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I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory... And why not? Victory is good for you, and don't let anybody tell you different.

Hunter S. Thompson

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Hunter S. Thompson
Age: 67 †
Born: 1937
Born: July 18
Died: 2005
Died: February 20
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And the whole Bush family, from Texas, should be boiled in poisoned oil.
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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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No one HAS to do something he doesn’t want to do for the rest of his life. But then again, if that’s what you wind up doing, by all means convince yourself that you HAD to do it. You’ll have lots of company.
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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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Allen [ Ginsberg] was a particular friend, one of my heroes, really. I knew him almost as long as I've been writing.
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Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba.
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Good people drink good beer.
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There was madness in any direction, at any hour. You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning.
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If you consider the great journalists in history, you don't see too many objective journalists on that list.
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That is the problem with this rich and anguished generation. Somewhere a long time ago they fell in love with the idea that politicians- even the slickest and brightest presidential candidates- were real heroes and truly exciting people. That is wrong on its face. They are mainly dull people with corrupt instincts and criminal children.
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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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There is probably some long-standing rule among writers, journalists, and other word-mongers that says: When you start stealing from your own work you're in bad trouble. And it may be true.
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Houston is a cruel, crazy town on a filthy river in East Texas with no zoning laws and a culture of sex, money and violence. It's a shabby, sprawling metropolis ruled by brazen women, crooked cops and super-rich pansexual cowboys who live by the code of the West -- which can mean just about anything you need it to mean, in a pinch.
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But I am in the gambling business, for good or ill it is the business I have chosen, and the only governing rule that we all recognize is: always sit close to an exit and never trust a man who doesn't sweat.
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Buy the ticket, take the ride.
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There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge.
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I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it.
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If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix.
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If you have half a story and you don't know the rest, you use what you have to pry the rest out of someone.
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