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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...
• That was always the difference between Muhammed 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....
• Not that we needed all that stuff, but when you get locked into a serious drug collection the tendency is to push it as far as you can.
  -- Hunter S. Thompson, "Fear and Loathing in Las Vega...
• In the 60's] 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 ....
• In the 60's] 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 ....
• He had that rare weird electricity about him -- that extremely wild and heavy presence that you only see in a person who has abandoned all hope of ever behaving "normally.
  -- Hunter S. Thompson (b. 1939), journalist -- Fear and Loathing '72...
• 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....