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I was not proud of what I had learned but I never doubted that it was worth knowing.
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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Hunter Stockton Thompson
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A word to the wise is infuriating.
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One of them is knowing the difference between Morality and Wisdom. Morality is temporary, Wisdom is permanent… Ho ho. Take that one to bed with you tonight.
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You'd be surprised at the things people will do in order to get their names or pictures in the paper.
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I've already become a mastodon in print - I don't see a consciousness for my kind of journalism.
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Sane is rich and powerful. Insane is wrong and poor and weak. The rich are free, the poor are put in cages. Res Ipsa Loquitur, amen. Mahalo.
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Perceive is the word that became in the '72 campaign what charisma was for the 1960, '64 and even the '68 campaigns. Perceive is the new key word. When you say perceive you imply the difference between what the candidate is and the way the public or the voters see him.
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At age 22 I set what I insist is an all-time record for distance hitchhiking in Bermuda shorts: 3,700 miles in three weeks.
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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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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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You can’t play city rules when you live in a jungle.
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There is no fool like a careless gambler who starts taking victory for granted.
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Any kind of political campaign that taps the kind of energy that nothing else can reach would generate a tremendous high for everybody involved in it.
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Las Vegas makes Reno seem like your friendly neighborhood grocery store.
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We are all wired into a survival trip, now.
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Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.
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Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.
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The pleasure is in the path, the search for something good.
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Richard Nixon looks like a flaming liberal today, compared to a golem like George Bush. Indeed. Where is Richard Nixon now that we finally need him?
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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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