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But I am in the gambling business, for good or ill it is the business I have chosen, and the only governing rule that we all recognize is: always sit close to an exit and never trust a man who doesn't sweat.
Hunter S. Thompson
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Hunter S. Thompson
Age: 67 †
Born: 1937
Born: July 18
Died: 2005
Died: February 20
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The whole framework of the presidency is getting out of hand. It's come to the point where you almost can't run unless you can cause people to salivate and whip each other with big sticks. You almost have to be a rock star to get the kind of fever you need to survive in American politics.
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On my tombstone they will carve, IT NEVER GOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME.
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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 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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Journalism, to me, is just another drug - a free ride to scenes I'd probably miss if I stayed straight.
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Like most of the others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser.
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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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I was not proud of what I had learned but I never doubted that it was worth knowing.
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Justice is expensive in America. There are no Free Passes... You might want to remember this, the next time you get careless and blow off a few Parking Tickets. They will come back to haunt you the next time you see a Cop car in your rear-view mirror.
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We are all wired into a survival trip, now.
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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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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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All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes.
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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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If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix.
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They don't hardly make 'em like him any more - but just to be on the safe side, he should be castrated anyway.
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Too weird to live, and too rare to die.
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So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?
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I knew a Buddhist once, and I've hated myself ever since.
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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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