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We are all wired into a survival trip, now.

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
Photographer
Politician
Reporter
Screenwriter
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Louisville
Kentucky
Hunter Stockton Thompson
Wired
Loathing
Trip
Survival
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We can't stop here, this is bat country!
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I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom and pure mathematics
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Given my calling I had to stumble across people who felt the same way. I was a young reporter.
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Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.
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At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards.
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I may sound a little black, but I'm really pretty well adjusted.
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Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.
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and the sad notes floated out to the patio and hung in the trees like birds too tired to fly
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We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear—fear of war, fear of poverty, fear of random terrorism, fear of getting down-sized or fired because of the plunging economy, fear of getting evicted for bad debts or suddenly getting locked up in a military detention camp on vague charges of being a Terrorist sympathizer.
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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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I'll call New York for some cash.
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Any combination of a 250-pound Mexican and LSD-25 is a potentially terminal menace for anything it can reach
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I've been studying drugs for years.
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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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When you push a car off a cliff and blow it up, be sure to roll the windows down to avoid shrapnel. Also, strip the license plate so you're not billed for the cleanup.
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I wanted to take off all my clothes and never wear them again.
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Any candidate who'd offered a real possibility of an alternative to Nixon - someone with a different concept of the presidency - could have challenged him and come very close to beating him.
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There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.
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Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming Wow! What a Ride!
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