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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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We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and - in spite of True Romance magazines - we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way.
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So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?
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Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.
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Las Vegas is the savage heart of the American Dream.
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A cap of good acid costs $5, and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony, with God singing solo and the Holy Ghost on drums.
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I wanted to take off all my clothes and never wear them again.
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'Crazy' is a term of art 'Insane' is a term of law. Remember that, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble.
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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 towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time, in the United States or any other country. Make no mistake about it: We are At War now & with somebody & and we will stay At War with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives.
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All advice can only be a product of the man who gives it.
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The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.
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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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