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Sounds of life and movement, people getting ready and people giving up, the sound of hope and the sound of hanging on, and behind them all, the quiet, deadly ticking of a thousand hungry clocks.

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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Thousand
Deadly
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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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I don't think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It's lonely out here.
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I knew a Buddhist once, and I've hated myself ever since.
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In four short years he has turned our country from a prosperous nation at peace into a desperately indebted nation at war. But so what? He is the President of the United States, and you're not. Love it or leave it.
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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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I was not proud of what I had learned but I never doubted that it was worth knowing.
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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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An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it.
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People think I watch TV too much, but they are wrong. There is a huge difference between merely watching TV and learning to respond aggressively to it. The difference, for most people, is the difference between the living and dying of their own brains.
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The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.
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I may sound a little black, but I'm really pretty well adjusted.
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