Ralph Steadman Short Quotes

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Where is Winnie the Pooh without it's illustrations?

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It was a carefree period and we took to it like genuine lowlife.

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'Happiness is a Small Politician' - my mantra then and forever more.

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' Don't write, Ralph. You'll bring shame on your family. ' — Hunter S. Thompson —

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Americans live with the certain knowledge that the source of their greatness has not yet been released.

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Today we are sacks of shit bundled into flying tubes with a security warning secreted inside every orifice.

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Beware of privilege. It stinks of rotten rotten fish heads, many of which were lapping the shore beneath the jetties.

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America is ripe for lies and lethargy. The pure mountain air is going and gone. It is a huge burden and a sadness for us all.

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I am an artist, I trade in uncertainty and superstition and cant. I invent dark visions of impossible situations that can never be resolved.

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Funny thing about Americans. They are the first to adopt weird lifestyles and radical views but they are the most conservative race on earth.

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I don't think that at the time, or now, come to think of it, I gave a damn. Foolishly, I wanted truth and idealism, but there was none to be had.

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At least my mural of Leonardo da Vinci still exists on the wall of their offices, which were subsequently taken over by Expedia. They had the wall insured.

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Whores get bow-legged and bankers get mean, which is strange when you think that that if whores get bow-legged, bankers should get generous, but they never do.

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Maybe he is the Mark Twain of the late twentieth century. Time will sort the bastard out and I leave it to others more qualified than me to assess and appraise his monumental literary legacy.

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By this time trapped inside the drug's reverie I could have sprayed out Michelangelo's Last Judgement on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. A yacht would be a beggar's handcart by comparison.

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