Steven Wright
Comedian
"In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number."
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Hunter S. Thompson
Journalist, Author
"In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity."
Hunter S. Thompson
Journalist, Author
"No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it off to forced conscious expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten."
Hunter S. Thompson
Journalist, Author
"In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity."
Hunter S. Thompson
Journalist, Author
"History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of "history" it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody understands at the time--and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened."
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"Man, I really like Vegas."
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"Las Vegas is a society of armed masturbators/gambling is the kicker here/sex is extra/weird trip for high rollers ... house-whores for winners, hand jobs for the bad luck crowd."
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"We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like "I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive...." And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about a hundred miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas."
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"I work a lot, and not just in Las Vegas."
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"A little bit of this town goes a very long way."
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"Too weird to live, and too rare to die."
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"Las Vegas is a 24-hour city. It never stops."
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"I was born in Las Vegas and my babysitter was a female Elvis Presley impersonator. My first memory is being in her arms and she was fully dressed up as Elvis. She was an avid thrift-shopper so I started going to thrift shops when I was very young. You could put something together for no money at all."
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"I've played a lot in Las Vegas in my life."
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