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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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I've always considered writing the most hateful kind of work. I suspect it's a bit like fucking - which is fun only for amateurs. Old whores don't do much giggling.
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I'll call New York for some cash.
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Given my calling I had to stumble across people who felt the same way. I was a young reporter.
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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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Which is not really a hell of a lot to ask, Lord, because the final incredible truth is that I am not guilty. All I did was take your gibberish seriously... and you see where it got me? My primitive Christian instincts have made me a criminal.
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There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.
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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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The possibility of physical and mental collapse is very real now... but collapse is out of the question as a solution or even a cheap alternative, it is unacceptable. No sympathy for the devil keep that in mind.
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This is the fast lane, folks...and some of us like it here.
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I noticed at once that Depp had a dangerously energized intelligence . . . He was a suave little brute, but he had a wicked sense of humor and a rare instinct for escalation.
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I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
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