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" I don't think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It's lonely out here. "
Hunter S. Thompson
Kind
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Here
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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 hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me. "
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" Buy the ticket, take the ride. "
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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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" 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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" The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane. "
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" I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride. "
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" 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 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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You
Growing Up
Me
" 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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" Some may never live, but the crazy never die. "
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Live
" One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won't have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it. "
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Winning
Sports
" 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
" I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. "
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Hours
Truth Is
Theory
" The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot - and it's only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear. "
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Time
Stupid
America
" The next MVP of the Super Bowl is just as likely to have been a full-time grocery store bagger last year as a Heisman Trophy winner. "
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" There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment. "
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Worst
Moment
Fear
" 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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Character
Dark
World
" As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity. "
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Shame
Mediocrity
Journalism
" Paranoia is just another word for ignorance. "
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Ignorance
Just
Word
" Without gambling, I would not exist. "
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Without
Would
" February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is not even mentioned. "
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" Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race. "
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" Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn't anticipate. "
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" I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a certain nostalgia for it when I see a big white racing yacht heeled over at cruising speed on the ocean, and I can still tie a mean bowline knot on just about anything in less than 10 seconds. "
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" Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it's because I'm Smart... But that is a lie: The real reason is because I'm an incurable Gambling addict. "
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Lie
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" I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is risky territory for people with generosity of spirit. Beware. "
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Generosity
Man
" In my heart, I am always a Raider. "
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Am
Raider
" 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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Hateful
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