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You took too much man, too much, too much.

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Hunter S. Thompson
Age: 67 †
Born: 1937
Born: July 18
Died: 2005
Died: February 20
Autobiographer
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Photographer
Politician
Reporter
Screenwriter
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Louisville
Kentucky
Hunter Stockton Thompson
Took
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Men

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A man never stoops so low as when he rises to the challenge of politics.
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People think I watch TV too much, but they are wrong. There is a huge difference between merely watching TV and learning to respond aggressively to it. The difference, for most people, is the difference between the living and dying of their own brains.
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History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of history it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody understands at the time--and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.
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We are living in dangerously weird times now. Smart people just shrug and admit they're dazed and confused. The only ones left with any confidence at all are the New Dumb. It is the beginning of the end of our world as we knew it. Doom is the operative ethic.
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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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Weird behavior is natural in smart children, just as curiosity is to a kitten.
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There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.
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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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The waitress had the appearance of a very old hooker who had finally found her place in life
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We can't stop here, this is bat country!
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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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I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.
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Every GOP administration since 1952 has let the Military-Industrial Complex loot the Treasury and plunge the nation into debt on the excuse of a wartime economic emergency.
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I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
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Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.
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I noticed at once that Depp had a dangerously energized intelligence . . . He was a suave little brute, but he had a wicked sense of humor and a rare instinct for escalation.
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Journalism, to me, is just another drug - a free ride to scenes I'd probably miss if I stayed straight.
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Never create anything, it will be misinterpreted, it will chain you and follow you for the rest of your life.
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Las Vegas is the savage heart of the American Dream.
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Did you see Bush on TV, trying to debate? Jesus, he talked like a donkey with no brains at all...It was pitiful...I almost felt sorry for him, until I heard someone call him 'Mr. President,' and then I felt ashamed.
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