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All Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
Hunter S. Thompson
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I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes.
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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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Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.
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For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
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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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Politics is the art of controlling your environment.
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I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.
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If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
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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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If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.
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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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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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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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