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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)
The brutal reality of politics would be probably intolerable without drugs. View quote
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It gave me a strange feeling, and the rest of that night I didn't say much, but merely sat there and drank, trying to decide if I was getting older and wiser, or just plain old. View quote
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It never got weird enough for me. View quote
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Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death. View quote
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Sane is rich and powerful. Insane is wrong and poor and weak. The rich are free, the poor are put in cages. Res Ipsa Loquitur, amen. Mahalo. View quote
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In the meantime, I would drink, rest, and ponder the meaning of this mob. View quote
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I wanted to take off all my clothes and never wear them again. View quote
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The car suddenly veered off the road and we came to a sliding halt in the gravel. I was hurled against the dashboard. My attorney was slumped over the wheel. "What's wrong?” I yelled. "We can't stop here. This is bat country! View quote
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I am a road man for the lords of karma. View quote
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I was not proud of what I had learned but I never doubted that it was worth knowing. (Hunter S. Thompson)
The highways are crowded with people who drive as if their sole purpose in getting behind the wheel is to avenge every wrong done them by man, beast or fate. The only thing that keeps them in line is their fear of death, jail and lawsuits. View quote
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We must ride this strange torpedo out until the end. View quote
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A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long. View quote
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We have bigger things to brood on and enormous reasons for wallowing in terminal craziness until we finally hit bottom. View quote
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The greatest mania of all is passion: and I am a natural slave to passion: the balance between my brain and my soul and my body is as wild and delicate as the skin of a Ming vase. View quote
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There was madness in any direction, at any hour. You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning. View quote
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One of them is knowing the difference between Morality and Wisdom. Morality is temporary, Wisdom is permanent... Ho ho. Take that one to bed with you tonight. View quote
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There is nothing worse than a man in the throws of an ether bender. View quote
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Journalism is "a low trade and a habit worse than heroin, a strange seedy world of misfits and drunkards and failures. View quote
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Old God sure was in a good mood when he made this place. (Hunter S. Thompson)
Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is. View quote
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He wandered into the Newsroom and asked for a job the same way he'd walk into a barbershop and ask for a haircut, and with no more idea of being turned down. View quote
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Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race. View quote
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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. View quote
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