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One can derive the same fun from print-making as from making mud pies and great subtlety can be achieved through the use of transparent inks, half-tone screens and even accidental colour combinations, which is often where the art hides.
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The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
Ralph Steadman
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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I once saw a lump of Greenland breaking off into the sea and moving south, which of course will affect the atmosphere and us generally, and it'll happen more and more.
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I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side.
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God invented mankind because he loved silly stories.
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I've done the Rolling Stones eating each other.
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Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and ruthless agenda.
Ralph Steadman
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Hunter and I never got proper journalistic accreditation to go anywhere. Nobody was giving us passes to go in here or there. We always had to somehow talk our way in.
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Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.
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We seem to think we have some control over this planet.
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Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.
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Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason.
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You see, nature will do exactly what it must, and if we are a hindrance to its development, to even its destructive powers to reform itself and we are in a way, we will go.
Ralph Steadman
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Isolationism is over.
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Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
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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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Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.
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It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become.
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I was in a slightly befuddled state by this time and the potent combination of watery beer and whiskey was bringing on a severe attack of drawing, as always happens when I start seeing unusual faces through a haze of controlled drinking. My body becomes a protective casing and lets me observe through the two keyholes on the front of my head.
Ralph Steadman
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Like you do about Nelson Mandela, you can't help feeling the guy's a good man.
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I have even written a book about Wine called The Grapes of Ralph.
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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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Let me say it here and now. For all Hunter's mindless self-indulgence, which is legendary and crude, he always impressed me with his blind, selfless urge to cut out the crony bestiality of modern society and the political economy that scarred the era.
Ralph Steadman