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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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Hunter S. Thompson
Age: 67 †
Born: 1937
Born: July 18
Died: 2005
Died: February 20
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Nixon had the unique ability to make his enemies seem honorable, and we developed a keen sense of fraternity. Some of my best friends have hated Nixon all their lives. My mother hates Nixon, my son hates Nixon, I hate Nixon, and this hatred has brought us together.
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We can't stop here, this is bat country!
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Too weird to live, and too rare to die.
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The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it.
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I think George Washington owned guns. I've never seen any contradiction with that.
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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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Houston is a cruel, crazy town on a filthy river in East Texas with no zoning laws and a culture of sex, money and violence. It's a shabby, sprawling metropolis ruled by brazen women, crooked cops and super-rich pansexual cowboys who live by the code of the West -- which can mean just about anything you need it to mean, in a pinch.
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Fear is a healthy instinct, not a sign of weakness. It is a natural self-defense mechanism that is common to felines, wolves, hyenas, and most humans. Even fruit bats know fear, and I salute them for it. If you think the world is weird now, imagine how weird it would be if wild beasts had no fear.
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I was not proud of what I had learned but I never doubted that it was worth knowing.
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Jesus! Did I SAY that? Or just think it? Was I talking? Did they hear me? I glanced over at my attorney, but he seemed oblivious.
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An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it.
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You almost have to be a rock star to generate the kind of fever you need to survive in American politics.
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The next MVP of the Super Bowl is just as likely to have been a full-time grocery store bagger last year as a Heisman Trophy winner.
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There's no point in getting into politics at all unless you plan to lash things around.
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All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes.
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Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.
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I think I'm going to have to get a flying license very soon, and maybe one of those Lear jets. It beats motorcycles all to hell.
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Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body.
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On my tombstone they will carve, IT NEVER GOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME.
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