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Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.

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.

Hunter S. Thompson

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

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Buy the ticket, take the ride.

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I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

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Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.

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America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

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I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a certain nostalgia for it when I see a big white racing yacht heeled over at cruising speed on the ocean, and I can still tie a mean bowline knot on just about anything in less than 10 seconds.

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It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

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I am a professional sportswriter, among other things, and I take the games seriously. It is only one of my many powerful addictions, and I don't mind admitting any of them.

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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 can't think in terms of journalism without thinking in terms of political ends. Unless there's been a reaction, there's been no journalism. It's cause and effect.

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I don't think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It's lonely out here.

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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 TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.

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A word to the wise is infuriating.

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The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

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As long as I'm learning something, I figure I'm OK - it's a decent day.

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There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

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Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on 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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The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it.

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I've already become a mastodon in print - I don't see a consciousness for my kind of journalism.

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March is a month without mercy for rabid basketball fans. There is no such thing as a 'gentleman gambler' when the Big Dance rolls around. All sheep will be fleeced, all fools will be punished severely... There are no Rules when the deal goes down in the final weeks of March. Even your good friends will turn into monsters.

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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

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The best thing about the Kentucky Derby is that it is only two minutes long. It is the quickest event in sports, except for Sumo-wrestling & Mike Tyson fights. Maybe Drag-racing is quicker, but I have never been attracted to it.

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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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If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.

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Without gambling, I would not exist.

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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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One thing I have learned in my painful career as a gambler is that bragging when you get lucky and win a few games will plunge you into gloom and unacceptable beatings very soon. It happens every time.

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February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is not even mentioned.

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Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.

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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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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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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

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Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

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