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North Vegas is where you go if you're a hooker turning forty and the syndicate men on the strip decide you're no longer much good for business out there with the high rollers.
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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I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes.
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You can't miss what you never had.
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Ah, lives there a man with soul so dead, who never to himself hath said As he hunched and rolled in his comfortable bed: To hell with the rent . . . I'll drink instead!
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I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
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Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run, but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant.
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Timothy Leary and I kept the same hours. He believed, as I do, that “After midnight, all things are possible.
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People think I watch TV too much, but they are wrong. There is a huge difference between merely watching TV and learning to respond aggressively to it. The difference, for most people, is the difference between the living and dying of their own brains.
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It is like sitting in a traffic jam on the San Diego Freeway with your windows rolled up and Portuguese music booming out of the surround-sound speakers while animals gnaw on your neck and diseased bill collectors hammer on your doors with golf clubs.
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Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
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There is probably some long-standing rule among writers, journalists, and other word-mongers that says: When you start stealing from your own work you're in bad trouble. And it may be true.
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I may sound a little black, but I'm really pretty well adjusted.
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I've already become a mastodon in print - I don't see a consciousness for my kind of journalism.
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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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