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Hunter S. Thompson Quotes: If you have half a story and you don't know the rest, you use what you have to pry the rest out of someone.
         

If you have half a story and you don't know the rest, you use what you have to pry the rest out of someone.


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America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

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So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: 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?

So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: 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?



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Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.



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