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You can’t play city rules when you live in a jungle.

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Hunter S. Thompson
Age: 67 †
Born: 1937
Born: July 18
Died: 2005
Died: February 20
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Journalist
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Politician
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Louisville
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One of them is knowing the difference between Morality and Wisdom. Morality is temporary, Wisdom is permanent… Ho ho. Take that one to bed with you tonight.
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Whatever he might have denied me was unimportant it was the fact that he could deny me anything at all, even what I didn't want
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Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
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Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.
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Most people who deal in words don't have much faith in them and I am no exception.
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I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
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Las Vegas makes Reno seem like your friendly neighborhood grocery store.
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For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
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I got tired and embarrassed by the constant poverty of those years. I told Doug [ Brinkley] this is really going to be a horrible downer of a book [The Proud Highway] if all it's going to be is about being broke. I didn't like being reminded of desperation at all times.
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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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