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" I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it. "

Hunter S. Thompson

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" I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side. "

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" 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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" I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your head - big darkness, soon come - but every once in a while you get a fair chance to have it both ways, and the annual NCAA basketball Tournament is one of them. "

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" If Sunday is the Lord's day, then Saturday belongs to the Devil. It is the only night of the week when he gives out Free passes to the Late show at the Too Much Fun Club. "

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" 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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" Some may never live, but the crazy never die. "

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" 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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" 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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" Truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen. "

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" By disgracing and degrading the presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart of the American Dream. "

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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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" I am more than just a serious basketball fan. I am a life-long addict. I was addicted from birth, in fact, because I was born in Kentucky and I learned, early on, that Habitual Domination was a natural way of life. "

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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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" Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist. "

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" Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond. "

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" There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment. "

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" Justice is expensive in America. There are no Free Passes... You might want to remember this, the next time you get careless and blow off a few Parking Tickets. They will come back to haunt you the next time you see a Cop car in your rear-view mirror. "

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" I can't think in terms of journalism without thinking in terms of political ends. Unless there's been a reaction, there's been no journalism. It's cause and effect. "

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" Politics is the art of controlling your environment. "

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" All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes. "

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" Nixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear and despise. "

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" I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth. "

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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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" Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer... in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my friend. "

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" The writer must be a participant in the scene... like a film director who writes his own scripts, does his own camera work, and somehow manages to film himself in action, as the protagonist or at least the main character. "

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" Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president. "

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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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" If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up. "

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" 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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" I guess that's one of the things about growing up in the fifties - it never occurred to me that you wouldn't be at least as successful as your parents. "

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