Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces.
Hunter S. ThompsonRead
By disgracing and degrading the presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart of the American Dream.
Interpretation
The quote criticizes Richard Nixon's actions as president, suggesting they harmed the integrity of American ideals.
Hunter S. Thompson's quote expresses profound disappointment in Richard Nixon's presidency, equating his departure from the White House to a betrayal of the American Dream. Thompson portrays Nixon's actions as not just disgraceful but as a personal affront to the values and aspirations that America represents, indicating that such failures can leave deep emotional scars on a nation.
In practice
In a speech reflecting on political integrity.
Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces.
As things stand now, I am going to be a writer. I'm not sure that I'm going to be a good one or even a self-supporting one, but until the dark thumb of fate presses me to the dust and says 'you are nothing', I will be a writer.
Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can't reach.
There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge.
Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.
When you write for a living and you can't do anything else, you know that sooner or later that the deadline is going to come screaming down on you like a goddamn banshee. There's no avoiding it...So one day you just don't appear at the El Adobe bar anymore; you shut the door, paint the windows black, rent an electric typewriter and become the monster you always were - the writer.
When you want a nation, that's called nationalism... Black nationalism. A revolutionary is a Black nationalist. He wants a nation.
The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies.
The accords were fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.
Here, in this very first paragraph of the Declaration, is the assertion of the natural right of all to the ballot; for how can 'the consent of the governed' be given if the right to vote be denied?
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