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" I have always hated bowling, and I don't mind admitting it. "

Hunter S. Thompson

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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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" You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye. "

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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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" 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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" I was 22 when JFK was murdered, and I will never recover from it... Never. "

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" You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands. "

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" There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother's milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it, or there won't be any winners. "

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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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" Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on 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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" 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. "

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" 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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" 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 a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. "

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

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" When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. "

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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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" As long as I'm learning something, I figure I'm OK - it's a decent day. "

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

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" 'Crazy' is a term of art; 'Insane' is a term of law. Remember that, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble. "

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

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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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" I don't think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It's lonely out here. "

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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 am a professional sportswriter, among other things, and I take the games seriously. It is only one of my many powerful addictions, and I don't mind admitting any of them. "

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" That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation. "

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" 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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" The only thing wrong with the NBA - or any other professional sport, for that matter - is a wild epidemic of Dumbness and overweening Greed. There is no Mystery about it, and no need to change any rules. "

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