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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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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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I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
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With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.
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Sounds of life and movement, people getting ready and people giving up, the sound of hope and the sound of hanging on, and behind them all, the quiet, deadly ticking of a thousand hungry clocks.
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I think you either have to have a very strong decisive person at the top or else a really brilliant staff command.
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I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes.
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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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Familiarity seems to breed contempt
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Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.
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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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I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is risky territory for people with generosity of spirit. Beware.
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Revenge is one of the few things in politics that never gets lost in the mail or written off for a dime on the dollar like losers' campaign debts or pledges to help the Poor.
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On my tombstone they will carve, IT NEVER GOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME.
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I harbor a secret urge to whack a salesman in the face, crack his teeth and put red bumps around his eyes.
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I'm a relatively respectable citizen. Multiple felon perhaps, but certainly not dangerous.
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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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Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives... and to the good life, whatever it is and wherever it happens to be.
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I'll call New York for some cash.
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Turn the goddam music up! My heart feels like an alligator!
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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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