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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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Kentucky
Hunter Stockton Thompson
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I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
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The regrets I have are so minor. You know, would I leave my Keith Richards hat, with the silver skull on it, on the stool at the coffee shop at LaGuardia? I wouldn't do that again. But overall, no, I don't have any regrets.
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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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Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.
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Nixon was a professional politician, and I despised everything he stood for -- but if he were running for president this year against the evil Bush-Cheney gang, I would happily vote for him.
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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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One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won't have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.
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If Sunday is the Lord's day, then Saturday belongs to the Devil. It is the only night of the week when he gives out Free passes to the Late show at the Too Much Fun Club.
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and he would probably not agree with my conviction that a sense of humor is the main measure of sanity. But who can say for sure? Humor is a very private thing.
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There's no point in getting into politics at all unless you plan to lash things around.
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On my tombstone they will carve, IT NEVER GOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME.
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