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The waitress had the appearance of a very old hooker who had finally found her place in life
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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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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.
Hunter S. Thompson
And the whole Bush family, from Texas, should be boiled in poisoned oil.
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Familiarity seems to breed contempt
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Good mescaline comes on slow. The first hour is all waiting, then about halfway through the second hour you start cursing the creep who burned you, because nothing is happening...and then ZANG!
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Turn the goddam music up! My heart feels like an alligator!
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Allen [ Ginsberg] was a particular friend, one of my heroes, really. I knew him almost as long as I've been writing.
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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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Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
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Life is beautiful and living is pain.
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I think you either have to have a very strong decisive person at the top or else a really brilliant staff command.
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It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.
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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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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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The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
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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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The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.
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Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
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The first paragraph. The last paragraph. That's where the story is going and how it's going to end. Or else you'll go off in a hundred different directions.
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Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.
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Good people drink good beer.
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