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Weird behavior is natural in smart children, just as curiosity is to a kitten.
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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Hunter Stockton Thompson
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...the crazy never die.
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Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.
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Hit him again, Jack! He's crazy!
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I may sound a little black, but I'm really pretty well adjusted.
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If you have half a story and you don't know the rest, you use what you have to pry the rest out of someone.
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Duke is an ugly word in Kentucky. Nothing in the world compares to the joy of beating those hateful swine from Duke.
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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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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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As I see it then, the formula runs something like this: a man must choose a path which will let his ABILITIES function at maximum efficiency toward the gratification of his DESIRES.
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