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In four short years he has turned our country from a prosperous nation at peace into a desperately indebted nation at war. But so what? He is the President of the United States, and you're not. Love it or leave it.

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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I noticed at once that Depp had a dangerously energized intelligence . . . He was a suave little brute, but he had a wicked sense of humor and a rare instinct for escalation.
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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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I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
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On my tombstone they will carve, IT NEVER GOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME.
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Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.
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I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my instincts were right.
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I am more than just a serious basketball fan. I am a life-long addict. I was addicted from birth, in fact, because I was born in Kentucky and I learned, early on, that Habitual Domination was a natural way of life.
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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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Gonzo journalism is a style of reporting based on William Faulkner's idea that the best fiction is far more true than any kind of journalism.
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You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.
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The behavior of the crowd at Churchill Downs is like 100,000 vicious Hyenas going berserk all at once in a space about the size of a 777 jet or the White House lawn.
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