Hunter S. Thompson

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1. 1937 age 0

   Born

2. 1998 age 61

   CreditFear and Loathing in Las Vegas

3. 2005 age 67

   Died

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• SBStephen Bridgewater1 title
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• CDCameron Diaz1 title
• LCLarry Cedar1 title
• JDJohnny Depp1 title

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  Photo:Rs79CC BY-SA 3.0
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  Photo:Photo by Thompson; first published on the 1st ed. Hell's Angels dust jacket by Random House .CC0
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  Photo:Photograph credited to "Cashman Photo Enterprises, Inc." Published by Random House.Public domain

• Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived, or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?

  Hunter S. Thompson, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Although I don't feel that it's at all necessary to tell you how I feel about the principle of individuality, I know that I'm going to have to spend the rest of my life expressing it one way or another, and I think that I'll accomplish more by expressing it on the keys of a typewriter than by letting it express itself in sudden outbursts of frustrated violence. I don't mean to say that I'm about to state my credo here on this page, but merely to affirm, sincerely for the first time in my life, my belief in man as an individual and independent entity. Certainly not independence in the everyday sense of the word, but pertaining to a freedom and mobility of thought that few people are able-or even have the courage-to achieve.

  Hunter S. Thompson, CC BY-SA 4.0

• If any part of it doesn’t seem to make sense, by all means call it to my attention. I’m not trying to send you out “on the road” in search of Valhalla, but merely pointing out that it is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it. There is more to it than that— no one HAS to do something he doesn’t want to do for the rest of his life. But then again, if that’s what you wind up doing, by all means convince yourself that you HAD to do it. You’ll have lots of company.

  Hunter S. Thompson, CC BY-SA 4.0

• The hippies, who had never really believed they were the wave of the future anyway, saw the election results as brutal confirmation of the futility of fighting the establishment on its own terms. There had to be a whole new scene, they said, and the only way to do it was to make the big move — either figuratively or literally — from Berkeley to the Haight-Ashbury, from pragmatism to mysticism, from politics to dope... The thrust is no longer for "change" or "progress" or "revolution," but merely to escape, to live on the far perimeter of a world that might have been.

  Hunter S. Thompson, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Richard Nixon has never been one of my favorite people anyway. For years I've regarded his existence as a monument to all the rancid genes and broken chromosomes that corrupt the possibilities of the American Dream; he was a foul caricature of himself, a man with no soul, no inner convictions, with the integrity of a hyena and the style of a poison toad. The Nixon I remembered was absolutely humorless; I couldn't imagine him laughing at anything except maybe a paraplegic who wanted to vote Democratic but couldn't quite reach the lever on the voting machine.

  Hunter S. Thompson, CC BY-SA 4.0

• The hard core, the outlaw elite, were the Hell's Angels... wearing the winged death's-head on the back of their sleeveless jackets and packing their "mamas" behind them on big "chopped hogs." They rode with a fine unwashed arrogance, secure in their reputation as the rottenest motorcycle gang in the whole history of Christendom.

  Hunter S. Thompson, CC BY-SA 4.0