Name	Hunter Thompson
Height	6'  (183 cm)
Build	Athletic
Hair Color	Brown - Dark
Date of Birth	July 18, 1937
Birthplace	Louisville, Kentucky
Star Sign	Cancer
Died	February 20, 2005 (Aged 68)
Cause of Death	suicide (gunshot wound to the head)
Nationality	American
Ethnicity	White
High School	Atherton High School Louisville Male High School
University	Columbia University (School of General Studies, part time classes on short story writing)
Occupation	Journalist
Celebrity Index	Hu
Claim to Fame	creator of `Gonzo journalism`, author, iconoclast
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Quotes

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

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

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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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Buy the ticket take the Ride

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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

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He who makes a beast of himself, gets rid of the pain of being a man.

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

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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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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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