21.2.05




---------------HUNTER S. THOMPSON 1937-2005.--------------
                                                            another dead hero

Inclui algunas quotes que encontre por ahí, aunque mis preferidas siempre han sido las que provienen de *fear and loathing*.

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--"Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas ... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether."
--"I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me!"
--"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."
--"You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye."
--"America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable."
--"A word to the wise is infuriating"
--"Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect. "
--"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. "
--"If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism. "
--"No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master. "
--"Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times. "
--"That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation. "
--"That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation. "

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