I can't think in terms of journalism without thinking in terms of political ends. Unless there's been a reaction, there's been no journalism. It's cause and effect.


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Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so cor...
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I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.
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The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
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We can't stop here, this is bat country!
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A cap of good acid costs five dollars and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony with God sing...
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In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile.
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Cover a war in a place where you can't drink beer or talk to a woman?
Hell no!"
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Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure i...
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History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of history i...
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Buy the ticket take the Ride
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If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would ...
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I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
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We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.
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We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter aci...
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Good people drink good beer.
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I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics ar...
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Richard Nixon was a criminally insane Monster - Bill Clinton is a black-hearted Swine of a friend.
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I felt a little guilty about jangling the poor bugger's brains with that evil fantasy. But what the ...
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Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusi...
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Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness ... Fear and Loathing ...
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There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered f...
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It never got weird enough for me.
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Even now, more than 30 years later, I still judge people on the basis of whether they voted for Jack...
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was doldrums time.
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Be a beachcomber, a Parisian wino, an Italian pimp, or a Danish pervert; but stay away from the Arme...
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Who are these people? These faces? Where did they come from? They look like caricatures of used car ...
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So this is how the world works, all energy flows according to the whims of the great magnet.
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So much for Objective Journalism. Don't bother to look for it here--not under any byline of mine; or...
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I agreed. By this time the drink was beginning to cut the acid and my hallucinations were down to a ...
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On the way down the hill we walked three abreast in the cobblestone street, drunk and laughing and t...
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At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards.
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No doubt they all Got What Was Coming To Them. All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought ...
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Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.
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Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why.
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A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstanc...
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A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long.
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1) Never trust a cop in a raincoat.
2) Beware of enthusiasm and of love, both are temporary and...
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All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name.

Remembered line from a long-
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The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch...
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It is Autumn, as you know, and things are beginning to die. It is so wonderful to be out in the cris...
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and the sad notes floated out to the
patio and hung in the trees like birds too tired to fly
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I bought a small bottle of beer for fifteen cents and sat on a bench in the clearing, feeling like a...
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No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years p...
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Those of us who have been up all night were in no mood for coffee and donuts. We wanted strong drink...
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We are all wired into a survival trip now. No more of the speed that fueled that 60's. That was the ...
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The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pim...
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Fear is just another word for ignorance
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I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes.
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Some may never live, but the crazy never die
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We were warriors then, and our tribe was strong like a river
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This was the fatal flaw in Tim Leary's trip. He crashed around America selling "conciousness expansi...
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Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime...
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Still humping the American Dream
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The possibility of physical and mental collapse is now very real. No sympathy for the Devil, keep th...
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Jesus Creeping God! Is there a priest in this tavern? I want to confess! I'm a fucking sinner! Venal...
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Ignore that nightmare in the bathroom. Just another ugly refugee from the Love Generation, some doom...
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My blood is too thick for California: I have never been able to properly explain myself in this clim...
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What kind of rat bastard psychotic would play that song- right now, at this moment?
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