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Hunter S. Thompson
Age: 67 †
Born: 1937
Born: July 18
Died: 2005
Died: February 20
Autobiographer
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Photographer
Politician
Reporter
Screenwriter
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Louisville
Kentucky
Hunter Stockton Thompson
Crazy
Dies
Never

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Sane is rich and powerful. Insane is wrong and poor and weak. The rich are free, the poor are put in cages. Res Ipsa Loquitur, amen. Mahalo.
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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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In four short years he has turned our country from a prosperous nation at peace into a desperately indebted nation at war. But so what? He is the President of the United States, and you're not. Love it or leave it.
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You can’t play city rules when you live in a jungle.
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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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The first paragraph. The last paragraph. That's where the story is going and how it's going to end. Or else you'll go off in a hundred different directions.
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In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
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Nixon was a professional politician, and I despised everything he stood for -- but if he were running for president this year against the evil Bush-Cheney gang, I would happily vote for him.
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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 person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.
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There's no point in getting into politics at all unless you plan to lash things around.
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Never create anything, it will be misinterpreted, it will chain you and follow you for the rest of your life.
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Myths and legends die hard in America.
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Did you see Bush on TV, trying to debate? Jesus, he talked like a donkey with no brains at all...It was pitiful...I almost felt sorry for him, until I heard someone call him 'Mr. President,' and then I felt ashamed.
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I may sound a little black, but I'm really pretty well adjusted.
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I think George Washington owned guns. I've never seen any contradiction with that.
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As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity.
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In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone.
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Ah, that we lack the courage of our romantic convictions and thereby miss the wine of life, forgoing the very thing that makes living worthwhile.
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