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Writing is the flip side of sex - it's good only when it's over.
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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Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.
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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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There's no point in getting into politics at all unless you plan to lash things around.
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I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
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There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother's milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it, or there won't be any winners.
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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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Platitudes are safe, because they're easy to wink at, but truth is something else again.
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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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I may sound a little black, but I'm really pretty well adjusted.
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Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
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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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There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.
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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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Good people drink good beer.
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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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Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.
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I wasn't trying to be an outlaw writer. I never heard of that term somebody else made it up. But we were all outside the law: Kerouac, Miller, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Kesey I didn't have a gauge as to who was the worst outlaw. I just recognized allies: my people.
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Weird behavior is natural in smart children, just as curiosity is to a kitten.
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And the whole Bush family, from Texas, should be boiled in poisoned oil.
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Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.
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