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• I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

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  It was one of those fine little love stories that can make you smile in your sleep at night.

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  Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.

   

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  Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.

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  I’d hate to advocate drugs, alcohol or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.

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• The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There’s also a negative side.

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• You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.

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• You better take care of me Lord, if you don’t you’re gonna have me on your hands.

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• There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

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• The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.

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• The trouble with Nixon is that he’s a serious politics junkie. He’s totally hooked and like any other junkie, he’s a bummer to have around, especially as President.

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• The person who doesn’t scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

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• The Edge… there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

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• That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn’t entirely conquer – he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.

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• Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

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• Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.

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• No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

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• It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

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• I wouldn’t recommend s*x, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they’ve always worked for me.

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• I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes.

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Hunter S. Thompson (45)

Birth:	18th July, 1937
Death:	20th February, 2005
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Journalist, Novelist

About

Hunter Stockton Thompson was born in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. He was an American journalist, author, novelist and the founder of the gonzo journalism movement. He worked for several magazines and newspapers include: The National Observer, The Nation, Rolling Stone, High Times, The San Francisco Examiner, The New York Times, and Esquire. He became internationally known with the publication of Hell's Angels. The work he remains best known for, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas(novel), constitutes a rumination on the failure of the 1960s counterculture movement. He wrote other books include: Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72, The Great Shark Hunt(essays), The Curse of Lono(memoir), Generation of Swine(essays), Songs of the Doomed(essays), Screw-Jack(short stories), Better Than Sex(essays), The proud highway, The Rum Diary(novel), Fear and Loathing in America, Kingdom of Fear, Hey Rube, and Ancient Gonzo Wisdom.

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