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If you have half a story and you don't know the rest, you use what you have to pry the rest out of someone.
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 miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.
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I don't think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It's lonely out here.
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Turn the goddam music up! My heart feels like an alligator!
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That's where Time magazine lives ... way out there on the puzzled, masturbating edge, peering through the keyhole and selling what they see to the big wide world of chamber of commerce voyeurs who support the public prints.
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I knew a Buddhist once, and I've hated myself ever since.
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I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
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Sounds of life and movement, people getting ready and people giving up, the sound of hope and the sound of hanging on, and behind them all, the quiet, deadly ticking of a thousand hungry clocks.
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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.
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We must have football. What would this country be without football in October?
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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
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Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run, but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant.
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I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is risky territory for people with generosity of spirit. Beware.
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There is no fool like a careless gambler who starts taking victory for granted.
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The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.
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Las Vegas makes Reno seem like your friendly neighborhood grocery store.
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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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I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
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Las Vegas is a society of armed masturbators/gambling is the kicker here/sex is extra/weird trip for high rollers ... house-whores for winners, hand jobs for the bad luck crowd.
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