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" I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing. "
Hunter S. Thompson
Beyond
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" One thing I have learned in my painful career as a gambler is that bragging when you get lucky and win a few games will plunge you into gloom and unacceptable beatings very soon. It happens every time. "
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" 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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" I have always loved blizzards, if only because of the driving experience - which is definitely an acquired taste. "
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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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" There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge. "
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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 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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" 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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" 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 a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. "
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" When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. "
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" The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it. "
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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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" Richard Nixon was an evil man - evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency. "
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" Rush Limbaugh is a lame professional swine, and he makes a good living at it. He is like a hired geek in some traveling backwoods carnival - the freaks who bite the heads off chickens - but Limbaugh is a modernized geek who thinks he can bite the heads off of people. "
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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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" All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes. "
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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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" Marathon running, like golf, is a game for players, not winners. That is why Callaway sells golf clubs and Nike sells running shoes. But running is unique in that the world's best racers are on the same course, at the same time, as amateurs, who have as much chance of winning as your average weekend warrior would scoring a touchdown in the NFL. "
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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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" For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled. "
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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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" I think I'm one of the most patriotic people that I've ever encountered in America. I consider myself a bedrock patriot. I participate very actively in local politics, because my voice might be worthwhile. I participate in a meaningful way - not by donations; I work at it. "
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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. "
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" I have always hated bowling, and I don't mind admitting it. "
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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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" 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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" Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president. "
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" 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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