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Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

«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.»
«A word to the wise is infuriating.»
«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.»
«There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.»
«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.»
«Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.»
«Politics is the art of controlling your environment.»
«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.»
«By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died»
«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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