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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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We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.
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That's where Time magazine lives ... way out there on the puzzled, masturbating edge, peering through the keyhole and selling what they see to the big wide world of chamber of commerce voyeurs who support the public prints.
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I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.
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It was the kind of town that made you feel like Humphrey Bogart: you came in on a bumpy little plane, and, for some mysterious reason, got a private room with a balcony overlooking the town and the harbor then you sat there and drank until something happened.
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Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.
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Old elephants limp off to the hills to die old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves to death with huge cars.
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If we get chased out of Iraq with our tail between our legs, that will be the fifth consecutive Third-world country with no hint of a Navy or an Air Force to have whipped us in the past 40 years.
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Writing is the flip side of sex - it's good only when it's over.
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All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes.
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I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
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He had that rare weird electricity about him - that extremely wild and heavy presence that you only see in a person who has abandoned all hope of ever behaving normally.
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There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.
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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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If you work in either journalism or politics... you will be flogged for being right and flogged for being wrong, and it hurts both ways-but it doesn't hurt as much when you're right.
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