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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
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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On some nights, I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.
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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.
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Freedom, Truth, Honour you could rattle off a hundred such words and behind every one of them would gather a thousand punks, pompous little farts, waving the banner with one hand and reaching under the table with the other.
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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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If you consider the great journalists in history, you don't see too many objective journalists on that list.
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Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.
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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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I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.
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Familiarity seems to breed contempt
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We can't stop here, this is bat country!
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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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Journalism, to me, is just another drug - a free ride to scenes I'd probably miss if I stayed straight.
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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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I don't think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It's lonely out here.
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The highways are crowded with people who drive as if their sole purpose in getting behind the wheel is to avenge every wrong done them by man, beast or fate. The only thing that keeps them in line is their fear of death, jail and lawsuits.
Hunter S. Thompson
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.
Hunter S. Thompson
So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?
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I'll call New York for some cash.
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Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces.
Hunter S. Thompson
I think you either have to have a very strong decisive person at the top or else a really brilliant staff command.
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