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Sex, drugs, and insanity have always worked for me, but I wouldn't recommend them for everyone.
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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But I am in the gambling business, for good or ill it is the business I have chosen, and the only governing rule that we all recognize is: always sit close to an exit and never trust a man who doesn't sweat.
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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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If you have half a story and you don't know the rest, you use what you have to pry the rest out of someone.
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I had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth.
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You almost have to be a rock star to generate the kind of fever you need to survive in American politics.
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As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity.
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