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Hunter S. Thompson
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Hunter S. Thompson
Age: 67 †
Born: 1937
Born: July 18
Died: 2005
Died: February 20
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Hunter Stockton Thompson
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More quotes by Hunter S. Thompson
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
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Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.
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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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It will be a Religious War, a sort of Christian Jihad, fueled by religious hatred and led by merciless fanatics on both sides. It will be guerilla warfare on a global scale, with no front lines and no identifiable enemy.
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America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
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The best thing about the Kentucky Derby is that it is only two minutes long. It is the quickest event in sports, except for Sumo-wrestling & Mike Tyson fights. Maybe Drag-racing is quicker, but I have never been attracted to it.
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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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I have always hated bowling, and I don't mind admitting it.
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Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body.
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The next MVP of the Super Bowl is just as likely to have been a full-time grocery store bagger last year as a Heisman Trophy winner.
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I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my instincts were right.
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I've always considered writing the most hateful kind of work. I suspect it's a bit like fucking - which is fun only for amateurs. Old whores don't do much giggling.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
Hunter S. Thompson
Given my calling I had to stumble across people who felt the same way. I was a young reporter.
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North Vegas is where you go if you're a hooker turning forty and the syndicate men on the strip decide you're no longer much good for business out there with the high rollers.
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I got tired and embarrassed by the constant poverty of those years. I told Doug [ Brinkley] this is really going to be a horrible downer of a book [The Proud Highway] if all it's going to be is about being broke. I didn't like being reminded of desperation at all times.
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I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.
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All gamblers lose regularly, but they rarely discuss it in public. Losing is bad for the image, dude. Nobody buys Hot Tips from Losers. Remember that.
Hunter S. Thompson
Politics is the art of controlling your environment.
Hunter S. Thompson
With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.
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