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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
Autobiographer
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Journalist
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Louisville
Kentucky
Hunter Stockton Thompson
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I may sound a little black, but I'm really pretty well adjusted.
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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.
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Platitudes are safe, because they're easy to wink at, but truth is something else again.
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Las Vegas is the savage heart of the American Dream.
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Whatever he might have denied me was unimportant it was the fact that he could deny me anything at all, even what I didn't want
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The first paragraph. The last paragraph. That's where the story is going and how it's going to end. Or else you'll go off in a hundred different directions.
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I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.
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Hit him again, Jack! He's crazy!
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