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This is the fast lane, folks...and some of us like it here.

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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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Louisville
Kentucky
Hunter Stockton Thompson
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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, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming Wow! What a Ride!
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It never got weird enough for me.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
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Every reaction is a learning process every significant experience alters your perspective. So it would seem foolish, would it not, to adjust our lives to the demands of a goal we see from a different angle everyday? How could we ever hope to accomplish anything anther than galloping neurosis?
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Life is beautiful and living is pain.
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Never fire a warning shot. It is a waste of ammunition.
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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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Richard Nixon looks like a flaming liberal today, compared to a golem like George Bush. Indeed. Where is Richard Nixon now that we finally need him?
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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 wasn't trying to be an outlaw writer. I never heard of that term somebody else made it up. But we were all outside the law: Kerouac, Miller, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Kesey I didn't have a gauge as to who was the worst outlaw. I just recognized allies: my people.
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Familiarity seems to breed contempt
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A cap of good acid costs $5, and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony, with God singing solo and the Holy Ghost on drums.
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I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
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If you consider the great journalists in history, you don't see too many objective journalists on that list.
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To make a point of declaring friendship is to cheapen it. For men's emotions are very rarely put into words successfully.
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Turn the goddam music up! My heart feels like an alligator!
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I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory... And why not? Victory is good for you, and don't let anybody tell you different.
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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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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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There is a progression of understanding vis-à-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance --physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way. . . Which is exactly the way it should be . . .
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