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  1. Hunter S. Thompson _ Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome

    I like this book and I especially like the title. Only a fool or a whore would call it anything else.
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  2. Hunter S. Thompson _ Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome

    It was wonderful, a stunning happy ending to what began as another tragic rock & roll story, as if Bob Dylan had been arrested in Miami for jacking off in a seedy little XXX theater while stroking the spine of a fat young boy.
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  3. Hunter S. Thompson _ Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome

    Autumn is always a time of Fear and Greed and Hoarding for the winter coming on. Debt collectors are active on old people and fleece the weak and helpless. They want to lay in enough cash to weather the known horrors of January and February. There is always a rash of kidnapping and abductions of schoolchildren in the football months. Preteens of both sexes are traditionally seized and grabbed off the streets by gangs of organized perverts who traditionally give them as Christmas gifts to each other to be personal sex slaves and playthings.Most of these things are obviously Wrong and Evil and Ugly - but at least they are Traditional. They will happen. Your driveway will ice over, your furnace will blow up, and you will be rammed in traffic by an uninsured driver in a stolen car.But what the hell? That's why we have Insurance, eh? And the Inevitability of these nightmares is what makes them so reassuring. Life will go on, for good or ill. But some things are forever, right? The structure may be a little Crooked, but the foundations are still strong and unshakable.
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  4. Hunter S. Thompson _ Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome

    Things are no longer what they seem to be. My telephones are haunted, and animals whisper at me from unseen places.
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  5. Hunter S. Thompson _ Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome

    There is a huge body of evidence to support the notion that me and the police were put on this earth to do extremely different things and never to mingle professionally with each other, except at official functions, when we all wear ties and drink heavily and whoop it up like the natural, good-humored wild boys that we know in our hearts that we are..These occasions are rare, but they happen - despite the forked tongue of fate that has put us forever on different paths...
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  6. Hunter S. Thompson _ Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome

    Politics is the Art of Controlling Your Enviroment.
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  7. Hunter S. Thompson _ Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome

    Coming of age in a fascist police state will not be a barrel of fun for anybody, much less for people like me, who are not inclined to suffer Nazis gladly and feel only contempt for the cowardly flag-suckers who would gladly give up their outdated freedom to for the mess of pottage they have been conned into believing will be freedom from fear.
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  8. Hunter S. Thompson _ Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome

    You can't hoard fun. It has no shelf life.
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  9. Hunter S. Thompson _ Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome

    My life has been the polar opposite of safe, but I am proud of it and so is my son, and that is good enough for me. I would do it all over again without changing the beat, although I have never recommended it to others. That would be cruel and irresponsible and wrong, I think, and I am none of those things.
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  10. Hunter S. Thompson _ Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome

    There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal."
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  11. Hunter S. Thompson _ Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome

    Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba....
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  12. Hunter S. Thompson _ Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome

    The real power in America is held by a fast-emerging new Oligarchy of pimps and preachers who see no need for Democracy or fairness or even trees, except maybe the ones in their own yards, and they don't mind admitting it. They worship money and power and death. Their ideal solution to all the nation's problems would be another 100 Year War.
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