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There is nothing worse than a man in the throws of an ether bender.
Hunter S. Thompson
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Hunter S. Thompson
Age: 67 †
Born: 1937
Born: July 18
Died: 2005
Died: February 20
Autobiographer
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Kentucky
Hunter Stockton Thompson
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Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.
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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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They're gonna make it look like suicide. I know how those bastards think.
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I'm a relatively respectable citizen. Multiple felon perhaps, but certainly not dangerous.
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There is no way to understand the public reaction to the sight of a Freak smashing a coconut with a hammer on the hood of a white Cadillac in a Safeway parking lot unless you actually do it, and I tell you it's tense.
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Did you see Bush on TV, trying to debate? Jesus, he talked like a donkey with no brains at all...It was pitiful...I almost felt sorry for him, until I heard someone call him 'Mr. President,' and then I felt ashamed.
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Richard Nixon looks like a flaming liberal today, compared to a golem like George Bush. Indeed. Where is Richard Nixon now that we finally need him?
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I’m a word freak. I like words. I’ve always compared writing to music. That’s the way I feel about good paragraphs. When it really works, it’s like music.
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Platitudes are safe, because they're easy to wink at, but truth is something else again.
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With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.
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Nixon was a professional politician, and I despised everything he stood for -- but if he were running for president this year against the evil Bush-Cheney gang, I would happily vote for him.
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Nixon had the unique ability to make his enemies seem honorable, and we developed a keen sense of fraternity. Some of my best friends have hated Nixon all their lives. My mother hates Nixon, my son hates Nixon, I hate Nixon, and this hatred has brought us together.
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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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...the crazy never die.
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Paranoia is just another mask for ignorance. The truth, when you finally chase it down is almost always far worse than your darkest visions and fears
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A cap of good acid costs $5, and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony, with God singing solo and the Holy Ghost on drums.
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You can’t play city rules when you live in a jungle.
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I harbor a secret urge to whack a salesman in the face, crack his teeth and put red bumps around his eyes.
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