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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.
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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As things stand now, I am going to be a writer. I'm not sure that I'm going to be a good one or even a self-supporting one, but until the dark thumb of fate presses me to the dust and says 'you are nothing', I will be a writer.
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The waitress had the appearance of a very old hooker who had finally found her place in life
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Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.
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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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We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear
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I may sound a little black, but I'm really pretty well adjusted.
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I don't think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It's lonely out here.
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All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name. Remembered line from a long- forgotten poem
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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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The thing that was important to me about Hemingway at the time was that Hemingway taught me that you could be a writer and get away with it.
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If we get chased out of Iraq with our tail between our legs, that will be the fifth consecutive Third-world country with no hint of a Navy or an Air Force to have whipped us in the past 40 years.
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I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.
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Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives... and to the good life, whatever it is and wherever it happens to be.
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They don't hardly make 'em like him any more - but just to be on the safe side, he should be castrated anyway.
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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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