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Life is beautiful and living is pain.
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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Louisville
Kentucky
Hunter Stockton Thompson
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Like most of the others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser.
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There is no fool like a careless gambler who starts taking victory for granted.
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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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That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.
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Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.
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Fear is just another word for ignorance.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
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Gonzo journalism is a style of reporting based on William Faulkner's idea that the best fiction is far more true than any kind of journalism.
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I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your head - big darkness, soon come - but every once in a while you get a fair chance to have it both ways, and the annual NCAA basketball Tournament is one of them.
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You'd be surprised at the things people will do in order to get their names or pictures in the paper.
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A man never stoops so low as when he rises to the challenge of politics.
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There is nothing Modern about doing dumb things for dumb reasons.
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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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We are all wired into a survival trip, now.
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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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Sane is rich and powerful. Insane is wrong and poor and weak. The rich are free, the poor are put in cages. Res Ipsa Loquitur, amen. Mahalo.
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All gamblers lose regularly, but they rarely discuss it in public. Losing is bad for the image, dude. Nobody buys Hot Tips from Losers. Remember that.
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The whole framework of the presidency is getting out of hand. It's come to the point where you almost can't run unless you can cause people to salivate and whip each other with big sticks. You almost have to be a rock star to get the kind of fever you need to survive in American politics.
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I'm a relatively respectable citizen. Multiple felon perhaps, but certainly not dangerous.
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A little bit of this town goes a very long way. After five days in Vegas you feel like you've been here for five years.
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