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The most important thing a writer can have [is] the ability to live with the constant loneliness and a strong sense of revulsion for the banalities of everyday socializing.
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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Hunter Stockton Thompson
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On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.
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Any candidate who'd offered a real possibility of an alternative to Nixon - someone with a different concept of the presidency - could have challenged him and come very close to beating him.
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I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.
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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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As things stand now, I am going to be a writer. I'm not sure that I'm going to be a good one or even a self-supporting one, but until the dark thumb of fate presses me to the dust and says 'you are nothing', I will be a writer.
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And the whole Bush family, from Texas, should be boiled in poisoned oil.
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Myths and legends die hard in America.
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I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my instincts were right.
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A man never stoops so low as when he rises to the challenge of politics.
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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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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 haven't found a drug yet that can get you anywhere near as high as a sitting at a desk writing, trying to imagine a story no matter how bizarre it is, [or] going out and getting into the weirdness of reality and doing a little time on the Proud Highway.
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They're gonna make it look like suicide. I know how those bastards think.
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I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
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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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There's no point in getting into politics at all unless you plan to lash things around.
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Sex, drugs, and insanity have always worked for me, but I wouldn't recommend them for everyone.
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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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