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I've been studying drugs for years.
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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I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.
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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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Freedom, Truth, Honour you could rattle off a hundred such words and behind every one of them would gather a thousand punks, pompous little farts, waving the banner with one hand and reaching under the table with the other.
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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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All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name. Remembered line from a long- forgotten poem
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The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.
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On my tombstone they will carve, IT NEVER GOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME.
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I've already become a mastodon in print - I don't see a consciousness for my kind of journalism.
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'Crazy' is a term of art 'Insane' is a term of law. Remember that, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble.
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If you can't make yourself understood by your friends, you'll be in trouble when your enemies come for you.
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I am more than just a serious basketball fan. I am a life-long addict. I was addicted from birth, in fact, because I was born in Kentucky and I learned, early on, that Habitual Domination was a natural way of life.
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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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This is the fast lane, folks...and some of us like it here.
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Just sick enough to be totally confident
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