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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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Ah, that we lack the courage of our romantic convictions and thereby miss the wine of life, forgoing the very thing that makes living worthwhile.
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Fear is just another word for ignorance.
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On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.
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Some people will tell you that slow is good - but I'm here to tell you that fast is better. I've always believed this, in spite of the trouble it's caused me. 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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A little bit of this town goes a very long way. After five days in Vegas you feel like you've been here for five years.
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Writing is the flip side of sex - it's good only when it's over.
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I was kind of relieved with the way the book [The Proud Highway] came out. It's beyond an autobiography or a biography. I never knew what was going to come up next.
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History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of history it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody understands at the time--and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.
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I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
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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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Sane is rich and powerful. Insane is wrong and poor and weak. The rich are free, the poor are put in cages. Res Ipsa Loquitur, amen. Mahalo.
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We have bigger things to brood on and enormous reasons for wallowing in terminal craziness until we finally hit bottom.
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Sportswriters are a rude and brainless subculture of fascist drunks
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There is no fool like a careless gambler who starts taking victory for granted.
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Turn the goddam music up! My heart feels like an alligator!
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There is probably some long-standing rule among writers, journalists, and other word-mongers that says: When you start stealing from your own work you're in bad trouble. And it may be true.
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With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.
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Old elephants limp off to the hills to die old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves to death with huge cars.
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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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North Vegas is where you go if you're a hooker turning forty and the syndicate men on the strip decide you're no longer much good for business out there with the high rollers.
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