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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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Journalist
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Louisville
Kentucky
Hunter Stockton Thompson
Totally
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Horatio
Gonzo
Loathing
Confident
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I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
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The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.
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Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
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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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There are times, however, and this is one of them, when even being right feels wrong. What do you say, for instance, about a generation that has been taught that rain is poison and sex is death?
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If you can't make yourself understood by your friends, you'll be in trouble when your enemies come for you.
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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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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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To make a point of declaring friendship is to cheapen it. For men's emotions are very rarely put into words successfully.
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Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.
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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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Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.
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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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I was kind of relieved with the way the book [The Proud Highway] came out. It's beyond an autobiography or a biography. I never knew what was going to come up next.
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Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces.
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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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At age 22 I set what I insist is an all-time record for distance hitchhiking in Bermuda shorts: 3,700 miles in three weeks.
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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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I have always hated bowling, and I don't mind admitting it.
Hunter S. Thompson
Bush is a natural-born loser with a filthy-rich daddy who pimped his son out to rich oil-mongers. He hates music, football and sex, in no particular order, and he is no fun at all.
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