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There's no point in getting into politics at all unless you plan to lash things around.
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A man has to BE something; he has to matter.
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Old God sure was in a good mood when he made this place.
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There may be flies on you and me, but there are no flies on Jesus.
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And the whole Bush family, from Texas, should be boiled in poisoned oil.
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If you have half a story and you don't know the rest, you use what you have to pry the rest out of someone.
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Things are no longer what they seem to be. My telephones are haunted, and animals whisper at me from unseen places.
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The Sixties were an era of extreme reality. I miss the smell of tear gas. I miss the fear of getting beaten.
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The McGovern/McCarthy type candidacies have disappointed too many people, because of a disillusionment with the candidates themselves.
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It was an educated fear of the coming shit-rain
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The reefer butt is called a 'roach' because it resembles a cockroach ... cockroach ... cockroach ...
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I couldn't imagine, and I don't say this with any pride, but I really couldn't imagine writing without a desperate deadline.
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Not even the foulest atrocities of Adolf Hitler ever shocked me so badly as these Abu Ghraib photographs did.
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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 so far beyond simple fatigue that I was beginning to feel nicely adjusted to the idea of permanent hysteria.
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Our vibrations were getting nasty. But why? Was there no communication in this car? Had we deteriorated to the level of dumb beasts?
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Fishing from a boat seems like dilettante bullshit - like hunting wild boar with a can of spray paint from the safety of a pick-up truck
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Hey, honkies!" my attorney screamed. "Goddamnit, I'm serious! I want to sell you some pure fuckin' smack!
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With rare exceptions, the outlaw bike is a Harley 74,
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Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.
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The sun woke me up the next morning. I sat up and groaned. My clothes were full of sand.
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All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name.Remembered line from a long-
forgotten poem — Hunter S. Thompson
Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it.
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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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Hungry people have the cunning of wild beasts.
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I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
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I had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth.
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Fear? I know not fear. There are only moments of confusion.
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It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.
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Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.
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Platitudes are safe, because they're easy to wink at, but truth is something else again.
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What election?" he asked. "Never mind," I said. "I was only kidding." One
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Don't take any guff from these swine.
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With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.
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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.
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What do you want? Where's the goddamn ice I ordered? Where's the booze? There's a war on, man! People are being killed!
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I think I'm going to have to get a flying license very soon, and maybe one of those Lear jets. It beats motorcycles all to hell.
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Wake up and ponder the future
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Truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen.
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A cap of good acid costs five dollars and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony with God singing solo and Holy Ghost on drums.
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I'm bound to go to heaven because I've already served my time in hell.
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We are going out again in search of the American dream.
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There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.
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Good people drink good beer.
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When Nixon went into New Hampshire, he was viewed by the pros as just another of these stubborn, right-wing waterheads with nothing better to do.
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The point is valid: the difference between survival and wipe-out in a physical crisis is nearly always a matter of conditioned reflexes.
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The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it.
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If you consider the great journalists in history, you don't see too many objective journalists on that list.
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Though I was careful never to mention it, I began to see a new dimension in everything that happened.
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It's 12 amyl nitrites (one box), in conjunction with as many beers as necessary.
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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.
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Have an objective to give your bender a theme. For instance, stalking and killing a wild pig with a bowie knife.
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At age 22 I set what I insist is an all-time record for distance hitchhiking in Bermuda shorts: 3,700 miles in three weeks.
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I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom and pure mathematics
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A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long.
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Real happiness, in politics, is a wide-open hammer shot on some poor bastard who knows he's been trapped, but can't flee.
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Reality itself is too twisted.
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It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.
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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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Get out of control, but appear under control. It?s not bad to alarm other people, though ? it?s good for them.
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Paranoia is just another mask for ignorance. The truth, when you finally chase it down is almost always far worse than your darkest visions and fears
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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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The crazy never die.
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You have to be very mean to get a laugh on the campaign trail. There is no such thing as paranoia.
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A little bit of this town goes a very long way. After five days in Vegas you feel like you've been here for five years.
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We have bigger things to brood on and enormous reasons for wallowing in terminal craziness until we finally hit bottom.
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Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.
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I learned from # Hemingway that you could be a # writer and get away with it.
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Now they looked like somebody had just sprayed their table with shit-mist. Nobody said a word. They ate quickly, and left without tipping. So
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Cover a war in a place where you can't drink beer or talk to a woman? Hell no!
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Once I establish credit, I may be able to function. A man needs credit. Especially when he has no money.
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Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.
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Everybody has the same chance but you need to be rich ...
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Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday.
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Never mind the track. The track is for punks. We are Road People. We are Cafe Racers.
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Crack is ruining the drug culture.
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Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer ... in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my friend.
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Too weird to live, too rare to die!
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It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.
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To make a point of declaring friendship is to cheapen it. For men's emotions are very rarely put into words successfully.
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I wouldn't be at all surprised, as hideous and dumb as it sounds, at an invasion of Iraq.
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It's in my interest, in ours perhaps, or maybe the interests of the greater good, for me to smoke a joint, and calm down.
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Say,' I said. "What brings you out here at this hour of the morning, for a thing like this?"'The bus,' he said. — Hunter S. Thompson
Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can't reach.
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I feel a powerful lust for red salmon.I agreed. — Hunter S. Thompson
People such as Hunter S. Thompson and the Beats were a huge influence on me, not just in what they were saying, but how they said it.
— Corey Taylor
It never got weird enough for me.
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In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile.
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Las Vegas makes Reno seem like your friendly neighborhood grocery store.
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You won't find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.
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I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.
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The Angels are not articulate about many things, but they bring a lover's inspiration to the subject of bikes.
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Gonzo journalism is a style of reporting based on William Faulkner's idea that the best fiction is far more true than any kind of journalism ...
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I will fight for your right to be weird- just as I know you will fight for mine.
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I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
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Right' i said. 'but first, we need the car. and after that, the cocaine. and then the tape recorder, for special music, and some acapulco shirts.
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All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes.
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I knew a Buddhist once, and I've hated myself ever since.
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Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.
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