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Some people will tell you that slow is good - but I'm here to tell you that fast is better.
Hunter S. Thompson
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Hunter S. Thompson
Age: 67 †
Born: 1937
Born: July 18
Died: 2005
Died: February 20
Autobiographer
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Louisville
Kentucky
Hunter Stockton Thompson
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If you work in either journalism or politics... you will be flogged for being right and flogged for being wrong, and it hurts both ways-but it doesn't hurt as much when you're right.
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Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.
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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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I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory... And why not? Victory is good for you, and don't let anybody tell you different.
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The pleasure is in the path, the search for something good.
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Politics is the art of controlling your environment.
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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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I never knew where I was going, but I ripped the tits off of everything that got in my way. By the time they figured me out, it was too late.
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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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I'll call New York for some cash.
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She was wearing the same clothes, but now she looked haggard and dirty. The delicate illusions that get us through life can only stand so much strain.
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Las Vegas is the savage heart of the American Dream.
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The real power in America is held by a fast-emerging new Oligarchy of pimps and preachers who see no need for Democracy or fairness or even trees, except maybe the ones in their own yards, and they don't mind admitting it.
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There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge.
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I had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth.
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I've been studying drugs for years.
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Justice is expensive in America. There are no Free Passes... You might want to remember this, the next time you get careless and blow off a few Parking Tickets. They will come back to haunt you the next time you see a Cop car in your rear-view mirror.
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Every reaction is a learning process every significant experience alters your perspective. So it would seem foolish, would it not, to adjust our lives to the demands of a goal we see from a different angle everyday? How could we ever hope to accomplish anything anther than galloping neurosis?
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An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it.
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A cap of good acid costs $5, and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony, with God singing solo and the Holy Ghost on drums.
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