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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I hate to advocate drugs alcohol violence or insanity to anyone but they've always worked for me.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel and no man so wise that he may

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.

America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy

America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen, with all the money we need to buy guns, and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

If you're going to be crazy you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.

If you're going to be crazy you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.

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    To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.

    The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. - George Orwell Quote

    The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.

    The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history. - George Orwell Quote

    The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

    Love is when two people know everything about each other and are still friends.

    Love is when two people know everything about each other and are still friends. 

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