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The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
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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I had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth.
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Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.
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[Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas] is a very hard book to translate to film because there's so much interior monologue. The what if factor. I tried to write it cinematically and let the dialogue carry it but I forgot about the interior monologue. It's kind of hard to show what's going on in the head. I think we should do it like a documentary.
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When you push a car off a cliff and blow it up, be sure to roll the windows down to avoid shrapnel. Also, strip the license plate so you're not billed for the cleanup.
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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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It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.
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She was wearing the same clothes, but now she looked haggard and dirty. The delicate illusions that get us through life can only stand so much strain.
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I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it.
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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.
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On my tombstone they will carve, IT NEVER GOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME.
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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.
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I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes.
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I was 22 when JFK was murdered, and I will never recover from it... Never.
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All advice can only be a product of the man who gives it.
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You'd be surprised at the things people will do in order to get their names or pictures in the paper.
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I think I'm going to have to get a flying license very soon, and maybe one of those Lear jets. It beats motorcycles all to hell.
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