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They're gonna make it look like suicide. I know how those bastards think.
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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Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.
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I noticed at once that Depp had a dangerously energized intelligence . . . He was a suave little brute, but he had a wicked sense of humor and a rare instinct for escalation.
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Given my calling I had to stumble across people who felt the same way. I was a young reporter.
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The next MVP of the Super Bowl is just as likely to have been a full-time grocery store bagger last year as a Heisman Trophy winner.
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There is no fool like a careless gambler who starts taking victory for granted.
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The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it.
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Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.
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He had that rare weird electricity about him - that extremely wild and heavy presence that you only see in a person who has abandoned all hope of ever behaving normally.
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The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.
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I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom and pure mathematics
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