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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
Autobiographer
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Louisville
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Hunter Stockton Thompson
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I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.
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Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.
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I measure my life in pages. If I have pages at dawn, it's been a good night.
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The best thing about the Kentucky Derby is that it is only two minutes long. It is the quickest event in sports, except for Sumo-wrestling & Mike Tyson fights. Maybe Drag-racing is quicker, but I have never been attracted to it.
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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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