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You'd be surprised at the things people will do in order to get their names or pictures in the paper.
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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Hunter Stockton Thompson
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The whole framework of the presidency is getting out of hand. It's come to the point where you almost can't run unless you can cause people to salivate and whip each other with big sticks. You almost have to be a rock star to get the kind of fever you need to survive in American politics.
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Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.
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Some people will tell you that slow is good - but I'm here to tell you that fast is better.
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The Raiders of old were vicious and crazy and cruel. Hanging around their locker room was like hanging around the weight room at Folsom Prison.
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Did you see Bush on TV, trying to debate? Jesus, he talked like a donkey with no brains at all...It was pitiful...I almost felt sorry for him, until I heard someone call him 'Mr. President,' and then I felt ashamed.
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I guess that's one of the things about growing up in the fifties - it never occurred to me that you wouldn't be at least as successful as your parents.
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Never fire a warning shot. It is a waste of ammunition.
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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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I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.
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Old elephants limp off to the hills to die old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves to death with huge cars.
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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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It is like sitting in a traffic jam on the San Diego Freeway with your windows rolled up and Portuguese music booming out of the surround-sound speakers while animals gnaw on your neck and diseased bill collectors hammer on your doors with golf clubs.
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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.
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If you have half a story and you don't know the rest, you use what you have to pry the rest out of someone.
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Fear is a healthy instinct, not a sign of weakness. It is a natural self-defense mechanism that is common to felines, wolves, hyenas, and most humans. Even fruit bats know fear, and I salute them for it. If you think the world is weird now, imagine how weird it would be if wild beasts had no fear.
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