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Most people who deal in words don't have much faith in them and I am no exception.
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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Louisville
Kentucky
Hunter Stockton Thompson
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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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Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.
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Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run, but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant.
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So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?
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Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.
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It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.
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As I see it then, the formula runs something like this: a man must choose a path which will let his ABILITIES function at maximum efficiency toward the gratification of his DESIRES.
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All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes.
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If you consider the great journalists in history, you don't see too many objective journalists on that list.
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I think George Washington owned guns. I've never seen any contradiction with that.
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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.
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A man never stoops so low as when he rises to the challenge of politics.
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We came down here to see this teddible scene: people all pissed out of their minds and vomiting on themselves and all that and now, you know what? It's us
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Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.
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I've been studying drugs for years.
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We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world — a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just Whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts.
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Revenge is one of the few things in politics that never gets lost in the mail or written off for a dime on the dollar like losers' campaign debts or pledges to help the Poor.
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Too weird to live, and too rare to die.
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Still humping the American Dream
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