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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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In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
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Some people will say that words like scum and rotten are wrong for Objective Journalism -- which is true, but they miss the point. It was the built-in blind spots of the Objective rules and dogma that allowed Nixon to slither into the White House in the first place.
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Every GOP administration since 1952 has let the Military-Industrial Complex loot the Treasury and plunge the nation into debt on the excuse of a wartime economic emergency.
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Any candidate who'd offered a real possibility of an alternative to Nixon - someone with a different concept of the presidency - could have challenged him and come very close to beating him.
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It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.
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Don't have sex in the lobby - it's usually awkward.
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For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
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Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.
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They don't hardly make 'em like him any more - but just to be on the safe side, he should be castrated anyway.
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With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.
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The next MVP of the Super Bowl is just as likely to have been a full-time grocery store bagger last year as a Heisman Trophy winner.
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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 was 22 when JFK was murdered, and I will never recover from it... Never.
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Some people will tell you that slow is good - but I'm here to tell you that fast is better.
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Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.
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I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes.
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The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time, in the United States or any other country. Make no mistake about it: We are At War now & with somebody & and we will stay At War with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives.
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It was the kind of town that made you feel like Humphrey Bogart: you came in on a bumpy little plane, and, for some mysterious reason, got a private room with a balcony overlooking the town and the harbor then you sat there and drank until something happened.
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The first paragraph. The last paragraph. That's where the story is going and how it's going to end. Or else you'll go off in a hundred different directions.
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