The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.


Hunter S. Thompson

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs
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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs
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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
The dawn is killing me off, the fog is on the windows, the [ra]coons have robbed the cans, and down ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Coming of age in a fascist police state will not be a barrel of fun for anybody, much less for peopl...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
As for LSD, I highly recommend it. We had a fine, wild weekend and no trouble at all. The feeling it...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
The brutal reality of politics would be probably intolerable without drugs.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
February was always the cruellest month for Hunter S Thompson,
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY
Over the years, we worked on some promising projects that Hunter could do while never leaving the Fa...
JAY COWAN
One of the worst incidents of that era caused no complaints at all: this was a sort of good-natured ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
OK for now. I enjoyed my quick, high-powered visit over there and look forward to a dead-game replay...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challengin...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I'm such a horror geek, comic geek and action figure geek. I'm inspired by so much - from Hu...
COREY TAYLOR
Anybody who believes and experiences their life and doesn't have shades of gray in it doesn'...
ALEXIS DENISOF
Even now, more than 30 years later, I still judge people on the basis of whether they voted for Jack...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.
LANCE GROSS
My dream dinner party guests would be Ethel Kennedy, Truman Capote and Hunter S. Thompson.
DYLAN PENN
It will take a brave person to cull the benefits system and analyse who deserves and who doesn't...
ALAN SUGAR
Let's talk about Connie Britton, who I love. I don't know of a person who doesn't love h...
MAGGIE CAREY
It's very fun to be the hunter of the sounds. The hunter of the right energy. And it's not r...
AURORA
Gray hairs are death's blossoms.
ENGLISH PROVERB
We are drifting into some ugly parallels here, and if I'd written this kind of thing two years ago I...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Regrets are the natural property of gray hairs.
CHARLES DICKENS
February was always the cruelest month for Hunter S. Thompson. An avid NFL fan, Hunter traditionally...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY
I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he...
WALTER CRONKITE
Sarah Paulson doesn't lie. Like, in life. But she doesn't lie onscreen, and you can't ta...
STERLING K. BROWN
War's not black and white; it's gray. If you don't fight in the gray area, you're go...
MARCUS LUTTRELL
People such as Hunter S. Thompson and the Beats were a huge influence on me, not just in what they w...
COREY TAYLOR
I feel like I've known Hunter S. Thompson for most of my life. I first encountered him in 1981, ...
TUCKER CARLSON
Bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
BIBLE
Lazy doesn't exist. Lazy is a symptom of something else. The person who can't get up off the...
JILLIAN MICHAELS
Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't kno...
MARILYN VOS SAVANT
The proper bookmark for a Hunter Thompson book is a pair of brass knuckles.
JONATHAN HEATT
Music doesn't really require whether the person's a young person or old person for whatever ...
LEON REDBONE
He's an innocent in a lot of ways. He's a very simple person who really doesn't have the...
JARED LETO
February was always the cruelest month for Hunter S. Thompson. An avid NFL fan, Hunter traditionally...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY
Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the youn...
PHILO
Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the youn...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE
If a person doesn't change, there's something really wrong with him.
CLINT EASTWOOD
Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Frankly, any city person who doesn't think I deserve a white-collar salary as a farmer doesn'...
JOEL SALATIN
I know my brother. Michael, he's not that kind of person. He doesn't do that. That's all...
JACKIE JACKSON
It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
GARRISON KEILLOR
I know I'm not the kind of person who's gonna wind up a walking jukebox, like many rock '...
CARLOS SANTANA
I'm more the sort of person who doesn't like hugging strangers because we don't know eac...
CAREY MULLIGAN
There's not a man, woman or child on the face of the earth who doesn't enjoy a tasty beverag...
DAVID LETTERMAN
It doesn't matter who scores the points, it's who can get the ball to the scorer.
LARRY BIRD
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
If it's a good song, it doesn't really matter if it's trendy or not. It will hit.
TABLO
Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person ...
ALICE WALKER
Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson.
DENNIS RITCHIE
Anyone who doesn't feel the crosses simply doesn't get that country.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE
I'm not a perfect person who doesn't mess up, eat bad, not work out - I do all those things....
JESSICA BIEL
I think a film is a failure if it doesn't have an emotional effect. That's the film's fa...
AUNJANUE ELLIS
Show me a person who doesn't like to laugh and I'll show you a person with a toe tag.
JULIA ROBERTS
It's of very little importance to me that I was born gay. It doesn't make me a better athlet...
JOHNNY WEIR
Unfortunately, many young believers - and some older ones, too - do not know that there will be time...
JAMES DOBSON
I'm quite a curious person. I don't mind being the one who doesn't know things, a role I...
ALAN DAVIES
Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn&#...
IMOGEN CUNNINGHAM
In the countryside, litter doesn't have a friend. It doesn't have anybody who's saying, ...
BILL BRYSON
Money doesn't buy elegance. You can take an inexpensive sheath, add a pretty scarf, gray shoes, ...
CAROLINA HERRERA
I'm the type of person who doesn't hope, dream or wish for things. I work and work and work.
LILLY SINGH
I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.
CAMERON DIAZ
A 527 doesn't have a wife. It doesn't have a brother-in-law who knows a lot about politics, ...
ROGER STONE
Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?
DIOGENES
'Grandmother' doesn't mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking ...
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There's nowhere to hide in the theatre. You can't be the one in rehearsal who doesn't kn...
KEELEY HAWES
Today, it's about gender equality, not neutrality. Anyone who doesn't agree would be a bit o...
TWINKLE KHANNA
In my own relationships, I know that I should break up with someone who doesn't encourage me to ...
VERONICA ROTH
I don't ascribe to the idea of the ivory tower composer who sits alone in a room composing his m...
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Remember that physical beauty is evolution's way of assuring us that the other person doesn'...
BEN BERNANKE
Your average person in Illinois doesn't really even know what workers' comp is. The average ...
BRUCE RAUNER
A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the chil...
PABLO NERUDA
If you're you, it doesn't matter if you're the most boring person in the world: someone ...
LIL UZI VERT
The one kind of person I have a lot of trouble understanding is the kind of person that says the exi...
PENN JILLETTE
It doesn't matter who you vote for. It's still the same billionaires that run the world.
GEEZER BUTLER
I feel it's important to show that one thing that you do doesn't define you as a human being...
RYAN GOSLING
I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person w...
ERYKAH BADU
Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER
Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.
JEAN PAUL
Why there is word for "End"???, which mean why there is "End",...!?

(So far it doesn't ex...
DEYTH BANGER
First of all, you ask me if the God of Christians forgives one who doesn't believe and doesn'...
POPE FRANCIS
There's a gray area there that I'm satisfied is not gray.
ROBERT CONRAD
Just because you say something doesn't make it controversial, and it doesn't make you a bad ...
CHARLES BARKLEY
I like Mitt Romney as a person. I think he's a dignified person. But I have no common ground on ...
RON PAUL
Well, you do have all those gray hairs." I point to the few silver strands coming through.
"The...
MARGARET MCHEYZER
My main characters are the most sunny, happy, optimistic, loving creatures on the face of the Earth....
BRUCE CAMERON
Someone who's asking questions of the clergy, that he doesn't have the answers to, I think t...
MICHAEL STUHLBARG
Come September, the middle of September when the first frost comes, that's hunting season. Fishi...
BUD GRANT
Once you don't smile on film, they say, 'Let's have that bloke who doesn't smile....
RICHARD C. ARMITAGE
You don't have to drink this," I said, handing him the champagne. "But Sandy might like it".
"N...
JAY COWAN
But above and beyond there's still one name left over,
And that is the name that you never will...
T.S. ELIOT
Yeah, I just don't break. I don't. And there's only one person I know who's a better...
OSCAR NUNEZ
Bangalore now wants a person who doesn't only play politics. Bangalore needs a problem solver, a...
NANDAN NILEKANI
Oh yeah, that's the Holy Grail, Pirates of the Caribbean. Johnny Depp, he's the real deal, i...
WILLIAM H. MACY
It doesn't matter if you come from the inner city. People who fail in life are people who find l...
BEN CARSON
To a liar, the most dangerous individual is the person who catches lies but doesn't say anything...
JESSE BALL
John Kerry doesn't think in terms of black-and-white. He's all gray, and he looks at all sid...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY
Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.
LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON

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HUNTER S. THOMPSON
We can't stop here, this is bat country!
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A cap of good acid costs five dollars and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony with God sing...
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In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile.
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Cover a war in a place where you can't drink beer or talk to a woman?
Hell no!"
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Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure i...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of history i...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Buy the ticket take the Ride
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If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.
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We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter aci...
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Good people drink good beer.
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I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics ar...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Richard Nixon was a criminally insane Monster - Bill Clinton is a black-hearted Swine of a friend.
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I felt a little guilty about jangling the poor bugger's brains with that evil fantasy. But what the ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusi...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness ... Fear and Loathing ...
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There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered f...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
It never got weird enough for me.
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Even now, more than 30 years later, I still judge people on the basis of whether they voted for Jack...
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was doldrums time.
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Be a beachcomber, a Parisian wino, an Italian pimp, or a Danish pervert; but stay away from the Arme...
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Who are these people? These faces? Where did they come from? They look like caricatures of used car ...
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So this is how the world works, all energy flows according to the whims of the great magnet.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
So much for Objective Journalism. Don't bother to look for it here--not under any byline of mine; or...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I agreed. By this time the drink was beginning to cut the acid and my hallucinations were down to a ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
On the way down the hill we walked three abreast in the cobblestone street, drunk and laughing and t...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards.
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No doubt they all Got What Was Coming To Them. All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought ...
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Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why.
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A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstanc...
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A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
1) Never trust a cop in a raincoat.
2) Beware of enthusiasm and of love, both are temporary and...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name.

Remembered line from a long-
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
It is Autumn, as you know, and things are beginning to die. It is so wonderful to be out in the cris...
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and the sad notes floated out to the
patio and hung in the trees like birds too tired to fly
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I bought a small bottle of beer for fifteen cents and sat on a bench in the clearing, feeling like a...
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No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years p...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Those of us who have been up all night were in no mood for coffee and donuts. We wanted strong drink...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
We are all wired into a survival trip now. No more of the speed that fueled that 60's. That was the ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pim...
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Fear is just another word for ignorance
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I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes.
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Some may never live, but the crazy never die
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We were warriors then, and our tribe was strong like a river
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This was the fatal flaw in Tim Leary's trip. He crashed around America selling "conciousness expansi...
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Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime...
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Still humping the American Dream
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The possibility of physical and mental collapse is now very real. No sympathy for the Devil, keep th...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Jesus Creeping God! Is there a priest in this tavern? I want to confess! I'm a fucking sinner! Venal...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Ignore that nightmare in the bathroom. Just another ugly refugee from the Love Generation, some doom...
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My blood is too thick for California: I have never been able to properly explain myself in this clim...
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What kind of rat bastard psychotic would play that song- right now, at this moment?
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