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

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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
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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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One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won't have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.
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I don't think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It's lonely out here.
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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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On my tombstone they will carve, IT NEVER GOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME.
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Sportswriters are a rude and brainless subculture of fascist drunks
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Paranoia is just another mask for ignorance. The truth, when you finally chase it down is almost always far worse than your darkest visions and fears
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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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The waitress had the appearance of a very old hooker who had finally found her place in life
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I never knew where I was going, but I ripped the tits off of everything that got in my way. By the time they figured me out, it was too late.
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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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Some people will tell you that slow is good - but I'm here to tell you that fast is better.
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A man never stoops so low as when he rises to the challenge of politics.
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Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.
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Sex, drugs, and insanity have always worked for me, but I wouldn't recommend them for everyone.
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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 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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There's no point in getting into politics at all unless you plan to lash things around.
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There might be some serious fun in politics.
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I may sound a little black, but I'm really pretty well adjusted.
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