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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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Hunter Stockton Thompson
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The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.
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Which is not really a hell of a lot to ask, Lord, because the final incredible truth is that I am not guilty. All I did was take your gibberish seriously... and you see where it got me? My primitive Christian instincts have made me a criminal.
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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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It's much more fun to run a political campaign than it is to be the candidate.
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There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother's milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it, or there won't be any winners.
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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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...the crazy never die.
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To make a point of declaring friendship is to cheapen it. For men's emotions are very rarely put into words successfully.
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We can't stop here, this is bat country!
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We must have football. What would this country be without football in October?
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Women are terrified of being raped, but somewhere in the back of the womb there is one rebellious nerve end that tingles with curiosity whenever the word is mentioned.
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The possibility of physical and mental collapse is very real now... but collapse is out of the question as a solution or even a cheap alternative, it is unacceptable. No sympathy for the devil keep that in mind.
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[Where the Buffalo Roam is] horrible pile of crap. [Bill] Murray did a good job. But it was a bad script. You can't beat a bad script. It was just a horrible movie. A cartoon. But Bill Murray did a good job. We actually wrote and shot several different endings and beginnings and they all got cut out in the end. It was disappointing.
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