I went to the Democratic Convention as a journalist, and returned a cold-blooded revolutionary.
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As quoted in the editors note by Douglas Brinkley, in Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist (2000), p.xvi ISBN 0747553459
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Variant: "I went to the Democratic Convention as a journalist, and returned a raving beast.Hunter S. Thompson
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He is the only real revolutionary, the authentic scientist, because he alone knows how liddle he knows.
He must be heartless. He lives in a cold, clear light. Yet dis is a funny t'ing: really, in private, he is not cold nor heartless — so much less cold than the Professional Optimists. ~ Gottlieb, Ch. 26Sinclair Lewis
Sweet exists by convention, bitter by convention, colour by convention; atoms and Void [alone] exist in reality.
Democritus
What good are the passions? For sooner or later their sweet sickness ends when reason speaks up;
And life, if surveyed with cold-blooded regard is stupid and empty — a joke.Mikhail Lermontov
I killed nobody that didn't deserve killing. In all of these here killings there was no alternative. You couldn't call them cold-blooded killings.... It was either my life or theirs.
Mickey Cohen
Fictional serial killers are usually more pretentious than frightening, perpetually quoting Milton or arranging their victims in poses designed to evoke the martyrdom of St Sebastian. What are you, a cold-blooded murderer or the controller of Radio 3?
Charlie Brooker
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