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" All gamblers lose regularly, but they rarely discuss it in public. Losing is bad for the image, dude. Nobody buys Hot Tips from Losers. Remember that. "
Hunter S. Thompson
Bad
Hot
Remember
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" I wasn't trying to be an outlaw writer. I never heard of that term; somebody else made it up. But we were all outside the law: Kerouac, Miller, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Kesey; I didn't have a gauge as to who was the worst outlaw. I just recognized allies: my people. "
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" The Hell's Angels try not to do anything halfway, and anyone who deals in extremes is bound to cause trouble, whether he means to or not. This, along with a belief in total retaliation for any offense or insult, is what makes the Hell's Angels unmanageable for the police and morbidly fascinating to the general public. "
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" I was 22 when JFK was murdered, and I will never recover from it... Never. "
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" Richard Nixon was a criminally insane Monster - Bill Clinton is a black-hearted Swine of a friend. "
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" In my heart, I am always a Raider. "
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Am
Raider
" Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president. "
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Great
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" Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn't anticipate. "
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Democracy
System
" I am an Addictive Personality, they say, a natural slave to passion - and many Doctors have warned me against it. I am a High-risk Patient. "
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I Am
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" I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. "
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Truth Is
Theory
" Some may never live, but the crazy never die. "
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Crazy
Die
Live
" Nixon was a bad loser. He hated losing worse than death, and that is why I enjoyed him. We were both football fans, both addicts; and on some days, nothing else mattered. "
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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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Good
" I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side. "
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Dark
Sense Of Humor
" For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled. "
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Beauty
Many
" I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem. "
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My Own
Problem
Taste
" I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me. "
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Violence
Hate
Alcohol
" Yes sir, I am a tortured man for all seasons, as they say, and I have powerful friends in high places. Birds sing where I walk, and children smile when they see me coming. "
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Man
Smile
Children
" Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it. "
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Luck
Keep
" Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning. "
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He
Pants
Morning
" 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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Me
People
Truth Is
" I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth. "
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Believe
I Believe
Thought
" Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist. "
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Artist
You
" Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is. "
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Comfortable
Addiction
Politics
" The Raiders of old were vicious and crazy and cruel. Hanging around their locker room was like hanging around the weight room at Folsom Prison. "
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Crazy
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" With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms. "
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Journalism
Stock Market
Results
" I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing. "
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Beyond
Ability
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" I don't think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It's lonely out here. "
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Kind
Journalism
Here
" I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory... And why not? Victory is good for you, and don't let anybody tell you different. "
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End
" Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today's winners are tomorrow's blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope. "
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Hope
Victory
" Duke is an ugly word in Kentucky. Nothing in the world compares to the joy of beating those hateful swine from Duke. "
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Nothing
Hateful
Joy