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Sportswriters are a rude and brainless subculture of fascist drunks
Hunter S. Thompson
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Hunter S. Thompson
Age: 67 †
Born: 1937
Born: July 18
Died: 2005
Died: February 20
Autobiographer
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Journalist
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Louisville
Kentucky
Hunter Stockton Thompson
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On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.
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The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.
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You almost have to be a rock star to generate the kind of fever you need to survive in American politics.
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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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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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In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
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I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.
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As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity.
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To make a point of declaring friendship is to cheapen it. For men's emotions are very rarely put into words successfully.
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and the sad notes floated out to the patio and hung in the trees like birds too tired to fly
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You took too much man, too much, too much.
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I am more than just a serious basketball fan. I am a life-long addict. I was addicted from birth, in fact, because I was born in Kentucky and I learned, early on, that Habitual Domination was a natural way of life.
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Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.
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I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your head - big darkness, soon come - but every once in a while you get a fair chance to have it both ways, and the annual NCAA basketball Tournament is one of them.
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Ah, lives there a man with soul so dead, who never to himself hath said As he hunched and rolled in his comfortable bed: To hell with the rent . . . I'll drink instead!
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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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The car suddenly veered off the road and we came to a sliding halt in the gravel. I was hurled against the dashboard. My attorney was slumped over the wheel. “What’s wrong?” I yelled. “We can’t stop here. This is bat country!
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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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