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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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Hunter Stockton Thompson
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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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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.
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Platitudes are safe, because they're easy to wink at, but truth is something else again.
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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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The highways are crowded with people who drive as if their sole purpose in getting behind the wheel is to avenge every wrong done them by man, beast or fate. The only thing that keeps them in line is their fear of death, jail and lawsuits.
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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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The real power in America is held by a fast-emerging new Oligarchy of pimps and preachers who see no need for Democracy or fairness or even trees, except maybe the ones in their own yards, and they don't mind admitting it.
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The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.
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We have bigger things to brood on and enormous reasons for wallowing in terminal craziness until we finally hit bottom.
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Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.
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Fear is just another word for ignorance.
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Some people will say that words like scum and rotten are wrong for Objective Journalism -- which is true, but they miss the point. It was the built-in blind spots of the Objective rules and dogma that allowed Nixon to slither into the White House in the first place.
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They say that he who flies highest, falls farthest - and who am I to argue? But we can't forget that he who doesn't flap his wings, never flies at all.
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Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future.
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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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Freedom, Truth, Honour you could rattle off a hundred such words and behind every one of them would gather a thousand punks, pompous little farts, waving the banner with one hand and reaching under the table with the other.
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Good mescaline comes on slow. The first hour is all waiting, then about halfway through the second hour you start cursing the creep who burned you, because nothing is happening...and then ZANG!
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There's no point in getting into politics at all unless you plan to lash things around.
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America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
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Don't have sex in the lobby - it's usually awkward.
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