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A man has to BE something he has to matter.
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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Houston is a cruel, crazy town on a filthy river in East Texas with no zoning laws and a culture of sex, money and violence. It's a shabby, sprawling metropolis ruled by brazen women, crooked cops and super-rich pansexual cowboys who live by the code of the West -- which can mean just about anything you need it to mean, in a pinch.
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Good mescaline comes on slow. The first hour is all waiting, then about halfway through the second hour you start cursing the creep who burned you, because nothing is happening...and then ZANG!
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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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Like most of the others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser.
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'Crazy' is a term of art 'Insane' is a term of law. Remember that, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble.
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Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.
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A man never stoops so low as when he rises to the challenge of politics.
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If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
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It never got weird enough for me.
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I wanted to take off all my clothes and never wear them again.
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Richard Nixon looks like a flaming liberal today, compared to a golem like George Bush. Indeed. Where is Richard Nixon now that we finally need him?
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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 he would probably not agree with my conviction that a sense of humor is the main measure of sanity. But who can say for sure? Humor is a very private thing.
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Life is beautiful and living is pain.
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There is nothing Modern about doing dumb things for dumb reasons.
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All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name. Remembered line from a long- forgotten poem
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I think you either have to have a very strong decisive person at the top or else a really brilliant staff command.
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I’m a word freak. I like words. I’ve always compared writing to music. That’s the way I feel about good paragraphs. When it really works, it’s like music.
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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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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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