Las Vegas is the savage heart of the American Dream.

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The best fiction is far more true than any kind of journalism.

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Familiarity seems to breed contempt

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There is not much mental distance between a feeling of having been screwed and the ethic of total retaliation, or at least the kind of random revenge that comes with outraging the public decency.

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As you were, I was. As I am, you will be.

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It was necessary, we felt, to thoroughly terrify our opponents, so that even in hollow victory, they would learn to fear every sunrise ...

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Невесть как они обретали уверенность, что, убравшись отсюда к черту, найдут что-то лучшее. Они слышали слово, то самое дьявольское слово, что заставляет людей впадать в противоречие с желанием двигаться дальше, – не все в мире живут в жестяных лачугах без туалетов, совсем без денег и без другой еды, кроме риса и бобов; не все убирают сахарный тростник за доллар в день или волокут в город кокосовые орехи, чтобы продавать их по десять центов, – но дешевый, жаркий, голодный мир их отцов и дедов, их братьев и сестер еще не конец истории, ибо если человек способен собраться с духом или даже совладать с отчаянием и отвалить на несколько тысяч миль, есть чертовски хорошая надежда, что у него будут деньги в кармане, кусок мяса в желудке и пропасть славно проведенного времени.

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There was no sense in blowing everything away for the sake of some violent ape I'd never even met.

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Timothy Leary and I kept the same hours. He believed, as I do, that “After midnight, all things are possible.

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we left about midnight and walked down the hill in silence. the night was muggy, and all around me i felt the same pressure, a sense of time rushing by while it seemed to be standing still. whenever i thought of time in puerto rico, i was reminded of those old magnetic clocks that hung on the walls of my classrooms in high school. every now and then a hand would not move for several minutes -- and if i watched it long enough, wondering if it had finally broken down, the sudden click of the hand jumping three for four notches would startle me when it came.

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