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The room was very quiet. I walked over to the TV set and turned it on to a dead channel-white noise at maximum decibels, a fine sound for sleeping, a powerful continuous hiss to drown out everything strange.
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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Duke is an ugly word in Kentucky. Nothing in the world compares to the joy of beating those hateful swine from Duke.
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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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One of them is knowing the difference between Morality and Wisdom. Morality is temporary, Wisdom is permanent… Ho ho. Take that one to bed with you tonight.
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You almost have to be a rock star to generate the kind of fever you need to survive in American politics.
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You'd be surprised at the things people will do in order to get their names or pictures in the paper.
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All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes.
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Weird behavior is natural in smart children, just as curiosity is to a kitten.
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and the sad notes floated out to the patio and hung in the trees like birds too tired to fly
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Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.
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Any candidate who'd offered a real possibility of an alternative to Nixon - someone with a different concept of the presidency - could have challenged him and come very close to beating him.
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Too weird to live, and too rare to die.
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All advice can only be a product of the man who gives 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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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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Given my calling I had to stumble across people who felt the same way. I was a young reporter.
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Familiarity seems to breed contempt
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Nixon had the unique ability to make his enemies seem honorable, and we developed a keen sense of fraternity. Some of my best friends have hated Nixon all their lives. My mother hates Nixon, my son hates Nixon, I hate Nixon, and this hatred has brought us together.
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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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