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The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.
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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Journalist
Novelist
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Politician
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Louisville
Kentucky
Hunter Stockton Thompson
Dumbness
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America
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In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone.
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We have bigger things to brood on and enormous reasons for wallowing in terminal craziness until we finally hit bottom.
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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.
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The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it.
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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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As I see it then, the formula runs something like this: a man must choose a path which will let his ABILITIES function at maximum efficiency toward the gratification of his DESIRES.
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There might be some serious fun in politics.
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There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.
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There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge.
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The thing that was important to me about Hemingway at the time was that Hemingway taught me that you could be a writer and get away with it.
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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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If Sunday is the Lord's day, then Saturday belongs to the Devil. It is the only night of the week when he gives out Free passes to the Late show at the Too Much Fun Club.
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I may sound a little black, but I'm really pretty well adjusted.
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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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Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba.
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The whole framework of the presidency is getting out of hand. It's come to the point where you almost can't run unless you can cause people to salivate and whip each other with big sticks. You almost have to be a rock star to get the kind of fever you need to survive in American politics.
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I was kind of relieved with the way the book [The Proud Highway] came out. It's beyond an autobiography or a biography. I never knew what was going to come up next.
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You can't miss what you never had.
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I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
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