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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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" 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. "

Hunter S. Thompson

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End

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

Hunter S. Thompson

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Fool

" 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. "

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

" Duke is an ugly word in Kentucky. Nothing in the world compares to the joy of beating those hateful swine from Duke. "

" 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. "

Hunter S. Thompson

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Think

" 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. "

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

Hunter S. Thompson

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Morning

" The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it. "

" 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

" 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. "

" I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing. "

" 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. "

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

" Truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen. "

" Politics is the art of controlling your environment. "

" Remember this, folks - I am a Hillbilly, and I don't always Bet the same way I talk. Good advice is one thing, but smart gambling is quite another. "

" If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today's winners are tomorrow's blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope. "

" There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge. "

" 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. "

" Richard Nixon was a criminally insane Monster - Bill Clinton is a black-hearted Swine of a friend. "

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

" I had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth. "

Hunter S. Thompson

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Had

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Hunter S. Thompson

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