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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
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Kentucky
Hunter Stockton Thompson
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Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.
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They don't hardly make 'em like him any more - but just to be on the safe side, he should be castrated anyway.
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Too weird to live, and too rare to die.
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Never create anything, it will be misinterpreted, it will chain you and follow you for the rest of your life.
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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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