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Fishing from a boat seems like dilettante bullshit - like hunting wild boar with a can of spray paint from the safety of a pick-up truck
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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Good mescaline comes on slow. The first hour is all waiting, then about halfway through the second hour you start cursing the creep who burned you, because nothing is happening...and then ZANG!
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It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.
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Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.
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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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We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.
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and the sad notes floated out to the patio and hung in the trees like birds too tired to fly
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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 guess I'm just courtly until people get in my way. You'll find most Southerners are like that.
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We are all wired into a survival trip, now.
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