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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
Reporter
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Louisville
Kentucky
Hunter Stockton Thompson
Confident
Totally
Sick
Enough
Horatio
Gonzo
Loathing
More quotes by Hunter S. Thompson
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 am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is risky territory for people with generosity of spirit. Beware.
Hunter S. Thompson
I wanted to take off all my clothes and never wear them again.
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The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
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I measure my life in pages. If I have pages at dawn, it's been a good night.
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I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it.
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Most of my stuff is just a series of false leads. I'll approach a story as a subject and then make a whole bunch of different runs at the lead. They're all good writing but they don't connect. So I end up having to string leads together.
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My blood is too thick for California: I have never been able to properly explain myself in this climate.
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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.
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Fear is just another word for ignorance.
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If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix.
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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 waitress had the appearance of a very old hooker who had finally found her place in life
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They're gonna make it look like suicide. I know how those bastards think.
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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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The best thing about the Kentucky Derby is that it is only two minutes long. It is the quickest event in sports, except for Sumo-wrestling & Mike Tyson fights. Maybe Drag-racing is quicker, but I have never been attracted to it.
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Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.
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Ah, lives there a man with soul so dead, who never to himself hath said As he hunched and rolled in his comfortable bed: To hell with the rent . . . I'll drink instead!
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There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.
Hunter S. Thompson
The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it.
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