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It is hard to ignore the prima facie dumbness that got us bogged down in this nasty war in the first place.

— Hunter S. Thompson

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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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