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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
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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Louisville
Kentucky
Hunter Stockton Thompson
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But our trip was different. It was a classic affirmation of everything right and true and decent in the national character. It was a gross, physical salute to the fantastic possibilities of life in this country-but only for those with true grit. And we were chock full of that.
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Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested.
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Any combination of a 250-pound Mexican and LSD-25 is a potentially terminal menace for anything it can reach
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If you work in either journalism or politics... you will be flogged for being right and flogged for being wrong, and it hurts both ways-but it doesn't hurt as much when you're right.
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A little bit of this town goes a very long way. After five days in Vegas you feel like you've been here for five years.
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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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I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
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Too weird to live, and too rare to die.
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I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.
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On my tombstone they will carve, IT NEVER GOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME.
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