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The real power in America is held by a fast-emerging new Oligarchy of pimps and preachers who see no need for Democracy or fairness or even trees, except maybe the ones in their own yards, and they don't mind admitting it.
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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I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
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If you work in either journalism or politics... you will be flogged for being right and flogged for being wrong, and it hurts both ways-but it doesn't hurt as much when you're right.
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The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.
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I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
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