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Turn the goddam music up! My heart feels like an alligator!
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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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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It was the kind of town that made you feel like Humphrey Bogart: you came in on a bumpy little plane, and, for some mysterious reason, got a private room with a balcony overlooking the town and the harbor then you sat there and drank until something happened.
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Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run, but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant.
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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.
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The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.
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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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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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Ah, that we lack the courage of our romantic convictions and thereby miss the wine of life, forgoing the very thing that makes living worthwhile.
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They say that he who flies highest, falls farthest - and who am I to argue? But we can't forget that he who doesn't flap his wings, never flies at all.
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A little bit of this town goes a very long way. After five days in Vegas you feel like you've been here for five years.
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Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.
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Revenge is one of the few things in politics that never gets lost in the mail or written off for a dime on the dollar like losers' campaign debts or pledges to help the Poor.
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I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is risky territory for people with generosity of spirit. Beware.
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By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.
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It's much more fun to run a political campaign than it is to be the candidate.
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In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile.
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I had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth.
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There is nothing worse than a man in the throws of an ether bender.
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