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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.
Hunter S. Thompson
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Hunter S. Thompson
Age: 67 †
Born: 1937
Born: July 18
Died: 2005
Died: February 20
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Hunter Stockton Thompson
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Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future.
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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
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I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn't know I could commit suicide at any time.
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I knew a Buddhist once, and I've hated myself ever since.
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We can't stop here, this is bat country!
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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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I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it.
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Duke is an ugly word in Kentucky. Nothing in the world compares to the joy of beating those hateful swine from Duke.
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By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.
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I wasn't trying to be an outlaw writer. I never heard of that term somebody else made it up. But we were all outside the law: Kerouac, Miller, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Kesey I didn't have a gauge as to who was the worst outlaw. I just recognized allies: my people.
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I'll call New York for some cash.
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