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There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother's milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it, or there won't be any winners.
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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One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won't have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.
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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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On my tombstone they will carve, IT NEVER GOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME.
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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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The waitress had the appearance of a very old hooker who had finally found her place in life
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A word to the wise is infuriating.
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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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Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.
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Most of my stuff is just a series of false leads. I'll approach a story as a subject and then make a whole bunch of different runs at the lead. They're all good writing but they don't connect. So I end up having to string leads together.
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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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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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