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It's come to the point where you almost can't run unless you can cause people to salivate and whip each other with big sticks. You almost have to be a rock star to get the kind of fever you need to survive in American politics.

— Hunter S. Thompson Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 (1973)

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You'd be surprised at the things people will do in order to get their names or pictures in the paper.

The Proud Highway : The Fear and Loathing Letters Volume I (1997)

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

It ain't much, but it's the only weapon we have against the Greedheads.

He could shake your hand and stab you in the back at the same time.

He Was A Crook (1994)

These horrifying digital snapshots of the American dream in action on foreign soil are worse than anything even I could have expected.

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