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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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Louisville
Kentucky
Hunter Stockton Thompson
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Hit him again, Jack! He's crazy!
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The behavior of the crowd at Churchill Downs is like 100,000 vicious Hyenas going berserk all at once in a space about the size of a 777 jet or the White House lawn.
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The regrets I have are so minor. You know, would I leave my Keith Richards hat, with the silver skull on it, on the stool at the coffee shop at LaGuardia? I wouldn't do that again. But overall, no, I don't have any regrets.
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Ah, lives there a man with soul so dead, who never to himself hath said As he hunched and rolled in his comfortable bed: To hell with the rent . . . I'll drink instead!
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I'm a relatively respectable citizen. Multiple felon perhaps, but certainly not dangerous.
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There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.
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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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I think you either have to have a very strong decisive person at the top or else a really brilliant staff command.
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I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your head - big darkness, soon come - but every once in a while you get a fair chance to have it both ways, and the annual NCAA basketball Tournament is one of them.
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There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother's milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it, or there won't be any winners.
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