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Once I establish credit, I may be able to function. A man needs credit. Especially when he has no money.
The Proud Highway : The Fear and Loathing Letters Volume I (1997)
I had a soft spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth, and also because his wife gave the best head in Hollywood.
If we get chased out of Iraq with our tail between our legs, that will be the fifth consecutive Third-world country with no hint of a Navy or an Air Force to have whipped us in the past 40 years.
If the current polls are reliable... Nixon will be re-elected by a huge majority of Americans who feel he is not only more honest and more trustworthy than George McGovern, but also more likely to end the war in Vietnam.
Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 (1973)
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.
Generation of Swine (1988)
I've found, during my admittedly limited experience in political reporting, that power & honesty very rarely coincide.
Even that far-left radical bastard George S. McGovern — babbling a maddening litany of his most Far Out ideas — would be hard pressed to crank up a more than 30% animosity quotient.
Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 (1973)
I had come to regard him as a loner with no real past and a future so vague there was no sense talking about it.
The Rum Diary (1998)
Jesus man! You don't look for acid! Acid finds you when it thinks you're ready.
Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 (1973)
Something new is wanted. A new novel, perhaps. Something the ten-percenters don't have their hooks into yet. Those soul-fuckers should all be killed.
The Proud Highway : The Fear and Loathing Letters Volume I (1997)
I understand that fear is my friend, but not always. Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.
A nervous blonde nymphet who thought that politics was some kind of game played by old people, like bridge.
Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 (1973)
The only other important thing to be said about Fear & Loathing at this time is that it was fun to write, and that's rare — for me, at least, because I've always considered writing the most hateful kind of work.
I take no pleasure in being Right in my dark predictions about the fate of our military intervention in the heart of the Muslim world. It is immensely depressing to me. Nobody likes to be betting against the Home team.
So much for Objective Journalism. Don't bother to look for it here — not under any byline of mine; or anyone else I can think of.
Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 (1973)
Satan's Slaves, number three in the outlaw hierarchy, custom-bike specialists with a taste for the flesh of young dogs, flashy headbands and tender young blondes with lobotomy eyes.
Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs (1966)
We are like pygmies lost in a maze of haze. We are not at war, we are having a nervous breakdown,again.
Chicago was the End of the Sixties, for me.
There are times, however, and this is one of them, when even being right feels wrong. What do you say, for instance, about a generation that has been taught that rain is poison and sex is death?
Generation of Swine (1988)
What the hell is going on here? How could this once-proud nation have changed so much, so drastically, in only a little more than two years. In what seems like the blink of an eye, this George Bush has brought us from a prosperous nation at peace to a broke nation at war.