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and the sad notes floated out to the patio and hung in the trees like birds too tired to fly
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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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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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Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
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I was not proud of what I had learned but I never doubted that it was worth knowing.
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We can't stop here, this is bat country!
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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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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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We must have football. What would this country be without football in October?
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There is a progression of understanding vis-à-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance --physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way. . . Which is exactly the way it should be . . .
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I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.
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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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We came down here to see this teddible scene: people all pissed out of their minds and vomiting on themselves and all that and now, you know what? It's us
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Still humping the American Dream
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It never got weird enough for me.
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That is the problem with this rich and anguished generation. Somewhere a long time ago they fell in love with the idea that politicians- even the slickest and brightest presidential candidates- were real heroes and truly exciting people. That is wrong on its face. They are mainly dull people with corrupt instincts and criminal children.
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There is probably some long-standing rule among writers, journalists, and other word-mongers that says: When you start stealing from your own work you're in bad trouble. And it may be true.
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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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Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
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I’m a word freak. I like words. I’ve always compared writing to music. That’s the way I feel about good paragraphs. When it really works, it’s like music.
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He had that rare weird electricity about him - that extremely wild and heavy presence that you only see in a person who has abandoned all hope of ever behaving normally.
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Myths and legends die hard in America.
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