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Old whores don't do much giggling. Nothing is fun when you have to do it — over and over, again and again — or else you'll be evicted, and that gets old.
The whole thing sucks. It was wrong from the start, and it is getting wronger by the hour.
We shall ride the bouncing ball and fight gamely to avoid being on the bottom when it bounces.
The Proud Highway : The Fear and Loathing Letters Volume I (1997)
A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.
The Proud Highway : The Fear and Loathing Letters Volume I (1997)
Sacrificing good men to journalism is like sending William Faulkner to work for Time magazine.
The Proud Highway : The Fear and Loathing Letters Volume I (1997)
Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived, or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?
Security (1951)
How many times had he stood calmly back there on the duckboards and listened to respectable-looking people talk about raping the hotel penguins?
The Curse of Lono (1983)
A man has to BE something; he has to matter.
The Proud Highway : The Fear and Loathing Letters Volume I (1997)
Nobody really cared about the countless criminal addictions that preyed on me day and night — just as long as I was not in denial.
Bush is a natural-born loser with a filthy-rich daddy who pimped his son out to rich oil-mongers. He hates music, football and sex, in no particular order, and he is no fun at all.
Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is. They are addicts, and they are guilty and they do lie and cheat and steal — like all junkies.
Events of the past two years have virtually decreed that I shall wrestle with the literary muse for the rest of my days.
The Proud Highway : The Fear and Loathing Letters Volume I (1997)
To Richard Milhous Nixon, who never let me down.
The hippies, who had never really believed they were the wave of the future anyway, saw the election results as brutal confirmation of the futility of fighting the establishment on its own terms.
Patrick Buchanan. "We disagree so violently on almost everything that it's a real pleasure to drink with him. If nothing else, he's absolutely honest in his lunacy…"
The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.
Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 (1973)
There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971)
In my case, using what politely might be called "advocacy journalism," I've used reporting as a weapon to affect political situations that bear down on my environment.
I may sound a little black, but I'm really pretty well adjusted.
The Proud Highway : The Fear and Loathing Letters Volume I (1997)
Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.