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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
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Hunter Stockton Thompson
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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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A cap of good acid costs $5, and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony, with God singing solo and the Holy Ghost on drums.
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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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I'm a relatively respectable citizen. Multiple felon perhaps, but certainly not dangerous.
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That is the problem with this rich and anguished generation. Somewhere a long time ago they fell in love with the idea that politicians- even the slickest and brightest presidential candidates- were real heroes and truly exciting people. That is wrong on its face. They are mainly dull people with corrupt instincts and criminal children.
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Sane is rich and powerful. Insane is wrong and poor and weak. The rich are free, the poor are put in cages. Res Ipsa Loquitur, amen. Mahalo.
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Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can't reach.
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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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Las Vegas is the savage heart of the American Dream.
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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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Platitudes are safe, because they're easy to wink at, but truth is something else again.
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It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.
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In San Francisco - life goes on. Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain. The sound of music floats down a dark street. A young girl looks out a window and wishes she were married. A drunk sleeps under a bridge. It is tomorrow.
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There was madness in any direction, at any hour. You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning.
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There might be some serious fun in politics.
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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
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In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
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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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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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Timothy Leary and I kept the same hours. He believed, as I do, that “After midnight, all things are possible.
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