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There is nothing Modern about doing dumb things for dumb reasons.
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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History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of history it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody understands at the time--and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.
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America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
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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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The next MVP of the Super Bowl is just as likely to have been a full-time grocery store bagger last year as a Heisman Trophy winner.
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There is probably some long-standing rule among writers, journalists, and other word-mongers that says: When you start stealing from your own work you're in bad trouble. And it may be true.
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In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
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We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and - in spite of True Romance magazines - we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way.
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There might be some serious fun in politics.
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Reality itself is too twisted.
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There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.
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All advice can only be a product of the man who gives it.
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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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I may sound a little black, but I'm really pretty well adjusted.
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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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It's the difference between watching a football game between two teams you don't care about, and watching a game where you have some kind of personal identity with one of the teams, if only a huge bet.
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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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An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it.
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Bush is a natural-born loser with a filthy-rich daddy who pimped his son out to rich oil-mongers. He hates music, football and sex, in no particular order, and he is no fun at all.
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Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.
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I knew a Buddhist once, and I've hated myself ever since.
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