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"Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism." -
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Hunter S. Thompson
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Top 5 quotes from Hunter S. Thompson
"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me."
"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."
"A word to the wise is infuriating."
"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."
"Call on God, but row away from the rocks."
Top 5 quotes from Truth & Lies, Writing
"Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets."
"There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention."
"Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special."
"Fiction is the truth inside the lie."
"Advice to young writers who want to get ahead without annoying delays: don’t write about Man, write about 'a' man."
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