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With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.
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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Louisville
Kentucky
Hunter Stockton Thompson
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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 you consider the great journalists in history, you don't see too many objective journalists on that list.
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The most important thing a writer can have [is] the ability to live with the constant loneliness and a strong sense of revulsion for the banalities of everyday socializing.
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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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The next MVP of the Super Bowl is just as likely to have been a full-time grocery store bagger last year as a Heisman Trophy winner.
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I guess I'm just courtly until people get in my way. You'll find most Southerners are like that.
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Weird behavior is natural in smart children, just as curiosity is to a kitten.
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But I am in the gambling business, for good or ill it is the business I have chosen, and the only governing rule that we all recognize is: always sit close to an exit and never trust a man who doesn't sweat.
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Las Vegas is a society of armed masturbators/gambling is the kicker here/sex is extra/weird trip for high rollers ... house-whores for winners, hand jobs for the bad luck crowd.
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The room was very quiet. I walked over to the TV set and turned it on to a dead channel-white noise at maximum decibels, a fine sound for sleeping, a powerful continuous hiss to drown out everything strange.
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For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel.
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The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it.
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There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge.
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Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.
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To give advice to a man who asks what to do with his life implies something very close to egomania. To presume to point a man to the right and ultimate goal - to point with a trembling finger in the RIGHT direction is something only a fool would take upon himself.
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Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives... and to the good life, whatever it is and wherever it happens to be.
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Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
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Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.
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I guess that's one of the things about growing up in the fifties - it never occurred to me that you wouldn't be at least as successful as your parents.
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