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There was no time for scholarly details, and, besides, I have always believed that a man can fairly be judged by the standards and taste of his choices in matters of high-level plagiarism.
Tiny hurts people. … It is difficult to see what role he might play in the Great Society.
No point mentioning those bats, I thought. The poor bastard will see them soon enough.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971)
Objective journalism is one of the main reasons American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long. You can't be objective about Nixon.
They wanted Action, Color, Speed, Violence...
Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 (1973)
The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but to those who see it coming and jump aside.
The Rum Diary (1998)
Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.
The hard core, the outlaw elite, were the Hell's Angels...
Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs (1966)
I sat there for a long time, and thought about a lot of things.
The Rum Diary (1998)
Most people who deal in words don't have much faith in them and I am no exception — especially the big ones like Happy and Love and Honest and Strong.
The Rum Diary (1998)
I do the best I can between high spots.
Rolling Stone (1976)
What passed for society was a loud, giddy whirl of thieves and pretentious hustlers, a dull sideshow full of quacks and clowns and philistines with gimp mentalities.
The Rum Diary (1998)
The only difference between the Sane and the Insane, is IN and yet within this world, the Sane have the power to have the Insane locked up.
Richard Nixon could tell us a lot about peaking too early. He was a master of it, because it beat him every time. He never learned and neither did Bush the Elder.
Welcome to the Big Darkness (2003)
Women are terrified of being raped, but somewhere in the back of the womb there is one rebellious nerve end that tingles with curiosity whenever the word is mentioned.
Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs (1966)
Any lawyer who says there's no such thing as rape should be hauled out to a public place by three large perverts and buggered at high noon, with all of his clients watching.
Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs (1966)
The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time, in the United States or any other country. Make no mistake about it: We are At War now — with somebody — and we will stay At War with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives.
Suddenly I was tired of Lotterman; he was a phony and he didn't even know it.
The Rum Diary (1998)
If you consider the great journalists in history, you don't see too many objective journalists on that list. H. L. Mencken was not objective.
Some people will say that words like scum and rotten are wrong for Objective Journalism — which is true, but they miss the point. It was the built-in blind spots of the Objective rules and dogma that allowed Nixon to slither into the White House in the first place.
He Was A Crook (1994)