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Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.
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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On my tombstone they will carve, IT NEVER GOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME.
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I was not proud of what I had learned but I never doubted that it was worth knowing.
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Life is beautiful and living is pain.
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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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Justice is expensive in America. There are no Free Passes... You might want to remember this, the next time you get careless and blow off a few Parking Tickets. They will come back to haunt you the next time you see a Cop car in your rear-view mirror.
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There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.
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An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it.
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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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I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.
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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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There is nothing worse than a man in the throws of an ether bender.
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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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Ah, lives there a man with soul so dead, who never to himself hath said As he hunched and rolled in his comfortable bed: To hell with the rent . . . I'll drink instead!
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and he would probably not agree with my conviction that a sense of humor is the main measure of sanity. But who can say for sure? Humor is a very private thing.
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I think I'm one of the most patriotic people that I've ever encountered in America. I consider myself a bedrock patriot. I participate very actively in local politics, because my voice might be worthwhile. I participate in a meaningful way - not by donations I work at it.
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The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.
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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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Good mescaline comes on slow. The first hour is all waiting, then about halfway through the second hour you start cursing the creep who burned you, because nothing is happening...and then ZANG!
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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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The Hell's Angels try not to do anything halfway, and anyone who deals in extremes is bound to cause trouble, whether he means to or not. This, along with a belief in total retaliation for any offense or insult, is what makes the Hell's Angels unmanageable for the police and morbidly fascinating to the general public.
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