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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
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Photographer
Politician
Reporter
Screenwriter
Writer
Louisville
Kentucky
Hunter Stockton Thompson
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There was madness in any direction, at any hour. You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning.
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I knew a Buddhist once, and I've hated myself ever since.
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Platitudes are safe, because they're easy to wink at, but truth is something else again.
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Just sick enough to be totally confident
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Good people drink good beer.
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I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
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On my tombstone they will carve, IT NEVER GOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME.
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If we get chased out of Iraq with our tail between our legs, that will be the fifth consecutive Third-world country with no hint of a Navy or an Air Force to have whipped us in the past 40 years.
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We must have football. What would this country be without football in October?
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Some people will tell you that slow is good - but I'm here to tell you that fast is better.
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Bush is a natural-born loser with a filthy-rich daddy who pimped his son out to rich oil-mongers. He hates music, football and sex, in no particular order, and he is no fun at all.
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Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces.
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In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
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Ah, that we lack the courage of our romantic convictions and thereby miss the wine of life, forgoing the very thing that makes living worthwhile.
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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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Ah, lives there a man with soul so dead, who never to himself hath said As he hunched and rolled in his comfortable bed: To hell with the rent . . . I'll drink instead!
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I guess I'm just courtly until people get in my way. You'll find most Southerners are like that.
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If you work in either journalism or politics... you will be flogged for being right and flogged for being wrong, and it hurts both ways-but it doesn't hurt as much when you're right.
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