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Hunter S. Thompson
Age: 67 †
Born: 1937
Born: July 18
Died: 2005
Died: February 20
Autobiographer
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Journalist
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Politician
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Kentucky
Hunter Stockton Thompson
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There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.
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The behavior of the crowd at Churchill Downs is like 100,000 vicious Hyenas going berserk all at once in a space about the size of a 777 jet or the White House lawn.
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Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.
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All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name. Remembered line from a long- forgotten poem
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They don't hardly make 'em like him any more - but just to be on the safe side, he should be castrated anyway.
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So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?
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Did you see Bush on TV, trying to debate? Jesus, he talked like a donkey with no brains at all...It was pitiful...I almost felt sorry for him, until I heard someone call him 'Mr. President,' and then I felt ashamed.
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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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I was 22 when JFK was murdered, and I will never recover from it... Never.
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Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives... and to the good life, whatever it is and wherever it happens to be.
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Politics is the art of controlling your environment.
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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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There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge.
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I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
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On my tombstone they will carve, IT NEVER GOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME.
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Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can't reach.
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and he would probably not agree with my conviction that a sense of humor is the main measure of sanity. But who can say for sure? Humor is a very private thing.
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There's a terrible danger in voting for the lesser of two evils because the parties can set it up that way.
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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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