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Never create anything, it will be misinterpreted, it will chain you and follow you for the rest of your life.
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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Politician
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Louisville
Kentucky
Hunter Stockton Thompson
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Any candidate who'd offered a real possibility of an alternative to Nixon - someone with a different concept of the presidency - could have challenged him and come very close to beating him.
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I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.
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Reality itself is too twisted.
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The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.
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Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.
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