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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
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
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Politician
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Louisville
Kentucky
Hunter Stockton Thompson
Horatio
Gonzo
Loathing
Confident
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Sick
Enough
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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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We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.
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I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn't know I could commit suicide at any time.
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Never fire a warning shot. It is a waste of ammunition.
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You can't hoard fun. It has no shelf life.
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A man who has blown all his options can't afford the luxury of changing his ways. He has to capitalize on whatever he has left, and he can't afford to admit - no matter how often he's reminded of it - that every day of his life takes him farther and farther down a blind alley.
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This is the fast lane, folks...and some of us like it here.
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Familiarity seems to breed contempt
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Like most of the others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser.
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Sportswriters are a rude and brainless subculture of fascist drunks
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Without gambling, I would not exist.
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I think I'm going to have to get a flying license very soon, and maybe one of those Lear jets. It beats motorcycles all to hell.
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With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.
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No one HAS to do something he doesn’t want to do for the rest of his life. But then again, if that’s what you wind up doing, by all means convince yourself that you HAD to do it. You’ll have lots of company.
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The waitress had the appearance of a very old hooker who had finally found her place in life
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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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Weird behavior is natural in smart children, just as curiosity is to a kitten.
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They say that he who flies highest, falls farthest - and who am I to argue? But we can't forget that he who doesn't flap his wings, never flies at all.
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We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and - in spite of True Romance magazines - we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way.
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The real power in America is held by a fast-emerging new Oligarchy of pimps and preachers who see no need for Democracy or fairness or even trees, except maybe the ones in their own yards, and they don't mind admitting it.
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