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• 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, "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....
• 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....
• In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile-and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts togethe
  ot necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely....
• I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.
  -- Hunter S. Thompson (b. 1939), journali...
• After two or three weeks of this madness, you begin to feel As One with the man who said, "No news is good news.
  In twenty-eight papers, only the rarest kind of luck will turn up more than two or three articles of any interest....