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I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my instincts were right.
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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I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
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I'll call New York for some cash.
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I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.
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Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.
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Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can't reach.
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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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Like most of the others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser.
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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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I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.
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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, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming Wow! What a Ride!
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He had that rare weird electricity about him - that extremely wild and heavy presence that you only see in a person who has abandoned all hope of ever behaving normally.
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