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Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.
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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Never create anything, it will be misinterpreted, it will chain you and follow you for the rest of your life.
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Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.
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My blood is too thick for California: I have never been able to properly explain myself in this climate.
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Freedom, Truth, Honour you could rattle off a hundred such words and behind every one of them would gather a thousand punks, pompous little farts, waving the banner with one hand and reaching under the table with the other.
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I knew a Buddhist once, and I've hated myself ever since.
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Don't have sex in the lobby - it's usually awkward.
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...the crazy never die.
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The Raiders of old were vicious and crazy and cruel. Hanging around their locker room was like hanging around the weight room at Folsom Prison.
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I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
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They say that he who flies highest, falls farthest - and who am I to argue? But we can't forget that he who doesn't flap his wings, never flies at all.
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That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.
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Like most of the others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser.
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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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I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your head - big darkness, soon come - but every once in a while you get a fair chance to have it both ways, and the annual NCAA basketball Tournament is one of them.
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The thing that was important to me about Hemingway at the time was that Hemingway taught me that you could be a writer and get away with it.
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Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.
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They're gonna make it look like suicide. I know how those bastards think.
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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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I was once arrested with [Allen] Ginsburg. He was a big help to me. He was one of the few people who read unknown writer's work. Maybe he was just hustling me. He liked to flirt, Allen. They called him a monster but he was only falling in love.
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A man who has blown all his options can't afford the luxury of changing his ways. He has to capitalize on whatever he has left, and he can't afford to admit - no matter how often he's reminded of it - that every day of his life takes him farther and farther down a blind alley.
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