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Some people will tell you that slow is good - but I'm here to tell you that fast is better.

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Hunter S. Thompson
Age: 67 †
Born: 1937
Born: July 18
Died: 2005
Died: February 20
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Politician
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Louisville
Kentucky
Hunter Stockton Thompson
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They say that he who flies highest, falls farthest - and who am I to argue? But we can't forget that he who doesn't flap his wings, never flies at all.
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I guess I'm just courtly until people get in my way. You'll find most Southerners are like that.
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Las Vegas is a society of armed masturbators/gambling is the kicker here/sex is extra/weird trip for high rollers ... house-whores for winners, hand jobs for the bad luck crowd.
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Any kind of political campaign that taps the kind of energy that nothing else can reach would generate a tremendous high for everybody involved in it.
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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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There is no way to understand the public reaction to the sight of a Freak smashing a coconut with a hammer on the hood of a white Cadillac in a Safeway parking lot unless you actually do it, and I tell you it's tense.
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The car suddenly veered off the road and we came to a sliding halt in the gravel. I was hurled against the dashboard. My attorney was slumped over the wheel. “What’s wrong?” I yelled. “We can’t stop here. This is bat country!
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I'm doing an introduction for one of Ralph's [Steadman] books. He's doing something called Gonzo, the Art I think he's stealing from me. I like Steadman and his coattail abilities. Ralph is better at business than I am. He has always managed to get free whiskey.
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Platitudes are safe, because they're easy to wink at, but truth is something else again.
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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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Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.
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I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.
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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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Politics is the art of controlling your environment.
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If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
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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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Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
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We are all wired into a survival trip, now.
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