American - Journalist | July 18, 1937 - February 20, 2005
I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.
Hunter S. Thompson
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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, especially as President.
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Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.
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I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it.
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Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.
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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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Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.
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With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.
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Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.
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In my heart, I am always a Raider.
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I am more than just a serious basketball fan. I am a life-long addict. I was addicted from birth, in fact, because I was born in Kentucky and I learned, early on, that Habitual Domination was a natural way of life.
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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.
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