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" I've already become a mastodon in print - I don't see a consciousness for my kind of journalism. "
Hunter S. Thompson
Become
Journalism
Kind
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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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Basketball
Darkness
Chance
" I don't think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It's lonely out here. "
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Kind
Journalism
Here
" 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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" 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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I Am
Experience
Nature
" 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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Man
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Children
" Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces. "
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Turn
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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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Sunday
Fun
Night
" I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me. "
Hunter S. Thompson
Violence
Hate
Alcohol
" 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. "
Hunter S. Thompson
My Own
Problem
Taste
" I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination. "
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Reality
Imagination
Long
" 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. "
Hunter S. Thompson
You
Growing Up
Me
" Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it. "
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People
Luck
Keep
" 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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Need
World
Nation
" Some may never live, but the crazy never die. "
Hunter S. Thompson
Crazy
Die
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. "
Hunter S. Thompson
Work
Winning
Sports
" Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist. "
Hunter S. Thompson
Fairytale
Artist
You
" 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
Paid
Crazy
Going
" When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. "
Hunter S. Thompson
Gets
Going
Pro
" 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. "
Hunter S. Thompson
Character
Dark
World
" Duke is an ugly word in Kentucky. Nothing in the world compares to the joy of beating those hateful swine from Duke. "
Hunter S. Thompson
Nothing
Hateful
Joy
" A word to the wise is infuriating. "
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Word
Wise
Funny
" 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. "
Hunter S. Thompson
Basketball
Life
Serious
" 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. "
Hunter S. Thompson
You
Car
Justice
" The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it. "
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Perfect
Sense
Weird
" 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. "
Hunter S. Thompson
Character
Own
Action
" 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
Dark
Sense Of Humor
" Truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen. "
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Truth Is
Truth
Fiction
" 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. "
Hunter S. Thompson
Good
Business
Money
" 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. "
Hunter S. Thompson
Him
Soft
Me
" 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. "
Hunter S. Thompson
Change
Professional
Mystery