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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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It is like sitting in a traffic jam on the San Diego Freeway with your windows rolled up and Portuguese music booming out of the surround-sound speakers while animals gnaw on your neck and diseased bill collectors hammer on your doors with golf clubs.
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I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
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It's much more fun to run a political campaign than it is to be the candidate.
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Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.
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There’s a lot of things wrong with this country, but one of the few things still right with it is that a man can steer clear of the organized bullshit if he really wants to. It’s a goddamned luxury, and if I were you, I’d take advantage of it while you can.
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Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
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Jim Harrison is someone I always enjoy, one of the great contemporary writers. I like Tim Ferris' Big Boom Theory. I'm getting into a different kind of reading, not straight novels.
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The pleasure is in the path, the search for something good.
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Timothy Leary and I kept the same hours. He believed, as I do, that “After midnight, all things are possible.
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The thing that was important to me about Hemingway at the time was that Hemingway taught me that you could be a writer and get away with it.
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It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.
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Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba.
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Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.
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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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Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming Wow! What a Ride!
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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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Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond.
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I was kind of relieved with the way the book [The Proud Highway] came out. It's beyond an autobiography or a biography. I never knew what was going to come up next.
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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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But our trip was different. It was a classic affirmation of everything right and true and decent in the national character. It was a gross, physical salute to the fantastic possibilities of life in this country-but only for those with true grit. And we were chock full of that.
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