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I measure my life in pages. If I have pages at dawn, it's been a good night.

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Hunter S. Thompson
Age: 67 †
Born: 1937
Born: July 18
Died: 2005
Died: February 20
Autobiographer
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
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Politician
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Louisville
Kentucky
Hunter Stockton Thompson
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If we get chased out of Iraq with our tail between our legs, that will be the fifth consecutive Third-world country with no hint of a Navy or an Air Force to have whipped us in the past 40 years.
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And the whole Bush family, from Texas, should be boiled in poisoned oil.
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Most of my stuff is just a series of false leads. I'll approach a story as a subject and then make a whole bunch of different runs at the lead. They're all good writing but they don't connect. So I end up having to string leads together.
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March is a month without mercy for rabid basketball fans. There is no such thing as a 'gentleman gambler' when the Big Dance rolls around. All sheep will be fleeced, all fools will be punished severely... There are no Rules when the deal goes down in the final weeks of March. Even your good friends will turn into monsters.
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I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.
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We must have football. What would this country be without football in October?
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One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won't have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.
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A man has to BE something he has to matter.
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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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and the sad notes floated out to the patio and hung in the trees like birds too tired to fly
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The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
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I never knew where I was going, but I ripped the tits off of everything that got in my way. By the time they figured me out, it was too late.
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A man never stoops so low as when he rises to the challenge of politics.
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Las Vegas is the savage heart of the American Dream.
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Houston is a cruel, crazy town on a filthy river in East Texas with no zoning laws and a culture of sex, money and violence. It's a shabby, sprawling metropolis ruled by brazen women, crooked cops and super-rich pansexual cowboys who live by the code of the West -- which can mean just about anything you need it to mean, in a pinch.
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We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.
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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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'Crazy' is a term of art 'Insane' is a term of law. Remember that, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble.
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Politics is the art of controlling your environment.
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The waitress had the appearance of a very old hooker who had finally found her place in life
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