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  • When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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  • I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
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  • 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.
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  • You can always turn your back on a person, but you can never turn your back on a drug... especially when it's waving a hunting knife in your eyes.
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  • Being shot out of a cannon is always better than being squeezed through a tube.
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  • 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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  • A word to the wise is infuriating.
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  • We'd be fools not to ride this strange torpedo to the end.
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  • Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.
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  • If there is, in fact, a Heaven and a Hell, all we know for sure is that Hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix...
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  • A cap of good acid costs five dollars and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony with God singing solo and the Holy Ghost on drums.
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  • There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.
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  • Objective journalism is one of the main reasons American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.
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  • In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.
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  • It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.
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  • I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
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  • Cover a war in a place where you can't drink beer or talk to a woman?
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  • In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile.
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  • I have a theory that the truth is never told during the 9 to 5 hours.
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  • I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.
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