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The possibility of physical and mental collapse is very real now... but collapse is out of the question as a solution or even a cheap alternative, it is unacceptable. No sympathy for the devil keep that in mind.
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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Louisville
Kentucky
Hunter Stockton Thompson
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I knew a Buddhist once, and I've hated myself ever since.
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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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I wanted to take off all my clothes and never wear them again.
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Like most of the others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser.
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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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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.
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I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.
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Most of my stuff is just a series of false leads. I'll approach a story as a subject and then make a whole bunch of different runs at the lead. They're all good writing but they don't connect. So I end up having to string leads together.
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We are all wired into a survival trip, now.
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I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.
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It never got weird enough for me.
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The next MVP of the Super Bowl is just as likely to have been a full-time grocery store bagger last year as a Heisman Trophy winner.
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Sounds of life and movement, people getting ready and people giving up, the sound of hope and the sound of hanging on, and behind them all, the quiet, deadly ticking of a thousand hungry clocks.
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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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There might be some serious fun in politics.
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It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.
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At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards.
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No one HAS to do something he doesn’t want to do for the rest of his life. But then again, if that’s what you wind up doing, by all means convince yourself that you HAD to do it. You’ll have lots of company.
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We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.
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