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.
("Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream")
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