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The pleasure is in the path, the search for something good.
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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Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond.
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I measure my life in pages. If I have pages at dawn, it's been a good night.
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Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.
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Perceive is the word that became in the '72 campaign what charisma was for the 1960, '64 and even the '68 campaigns. Perceive is the new key word. When you say perceive you imply the difference between what the candidate is and the way the public or the voters see him.
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I was kind of relieved with the way the book [The Proud Highway] came out. It's beyond an autobiography or a biography. I never knew what was going to come up next.
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Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives... and to the good life, whatever it is and wherever it happens to be.
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It never got weird enough for me.
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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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For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
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No one HAS to do something he doesn’t want to do for the rest of his life. But then again, if that’s what you wind up doing, by all means convince yourself that you HAD to do it. You’ll have lots of company.
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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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In San Francisco - life goes on. Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain. The sound of music floats down a dark street. A young girl looks out a window and wishes she were married. A drunk sleeps under a bridge. It is tomorrow.
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Platitudes are safe, because they're easy to wink at, but truth is something else again.
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Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run, but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant.
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We can't stop here, this is bat country!
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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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There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.
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I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my instincts were right.
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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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You took too much man, too much, too much.
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