A word to the wise is infuriating.

—Hunter S. Thompson

About Hunter S. Thompson

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Hunter Stockton Thompson (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) was an American journalist and author, regarded as a pioneer of New Journalism along with Gay Talese, Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, Joan Didion, and Tom Wolfe. He rose to prominence with the book Hell's Angels (1967), for which he lived...

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

—Hunter S. Thompson

I hate to advocate drugs, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

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Consider how much more often you suffer from your anger and grief than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

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Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.

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