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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.

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Hunter S. Thompson
Age: 67 †
Born: 1937
Born: July 18
Died: 2005
Died: February 20
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The Hell's Angels try not to do anything halfway, and anyone who deals in extremes is bound to cause trouble, whether he means to or not. This, along with a belief in total retaliation for any offense or insult, is what makes the Hell's Angels unmanageable for the police and morbidly fascinating to the general public.
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History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of history it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody understands at the time--and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.
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Fear is a healthy instinct, not a sign of weakness. It is a natural self-defense mechanism that is common to felines, wolves, hyenas, and most humans. Even fruit bats know fear, and I salute them for it. If you think the world is weird now, imagine how weird it would be if wild beasts had no fear.
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I guess I'm just courtly until people get in my way. You'll find most Southerners are like that.
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People think I watch TV too much, but they are wrong. There is a huge difference between merely watching TV and learning to respond aggressively to it. The difference, for most people, is the difference between the living and dying of their own brains.
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Whatever he might have denied me was unimportant it was the fact that he could deny me anything at all, even what I didn't want
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All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name. Remembered line from a long- forgotten poem
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Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
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Old elephants limp off to the hills to die old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves to death with huge cars.
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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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