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Never fire a warning shot. It is a waste of ammunition.

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
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Screenwriter
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Louisville
Kentucky
Hunter Stockton Thompson
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Some people will tell you that slow is good - but I'm here to tell you that fast is better. I've always believed this, in spite of the trouble it's caused me. Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba.
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There might be some serious fun in politics.
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In four short years he has turned our country from a prosperous nation at peace into a desperately indebted nation at war. But so what? He is the President of the United States, and you're not. Love it or leave it.
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Every GOP administration since 1952 has let the Military-Industrial Complex loot the Treasury and plunge the nation into debt on the excuse of a wartime economic emergency.
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I think I'm going to have to get a flying license very soon, and maybe one of those Lear jets. It beats motorcycles all to hell.
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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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Still humping the American Dream
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We can't stop here, this is bat country!
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I'm a relatively respectable citizen. Multiple felon perhaps, but certainly not dangerous.
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North Vegas is where you go if you're a hooker turning forty and the syndicate men on the strip decide you're no longer much good for business out there with the high rollers.
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There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.
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A man never stoops so low as when he rises to the challenge of politics.
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Fear is just another word for ignorance.
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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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There is a progression of understanding vis-à-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance --physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way. . . Which is exactly the way it should be . . .
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I was not proud of what I had learned but I never doubted that it was worth knowing.
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I was kind of relieved with the way the book [The Proud Highway] came out. It's beyond an autobiography or a biography. I never knew what was going to come up next.
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I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.
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Never create anything, it will be misinterpreted, it will chain you and follow you for the rest of your life.
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Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can't reach.
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