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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. "

Hunter S. Thompson

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" The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President. "

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" In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. "

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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 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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" America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable. "

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

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

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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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" I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me. "

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" Paranoia is just another word for ignorance. "

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

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" Nixon was a crook, of course, but he was also a rabid football fan - and he knew the game, which still astounds me, but I have always had a soft spot for him because of it. "

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" Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" There is no fool like a careless gambler who starts taking victory for granted. "

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

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" 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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" A word to the wise is infuriating. "

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

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" There might be some serious fun in politics. "

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

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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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" 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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