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Hunter S. Thompson
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Hunter S. Thompson
Age: 67 †
Born: 1937
Born: July 18
Died: 2005
Died: February 20
Autobiographer
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Hunter Stockton Thompson
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I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.
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You can't miss what you never had.
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I wasn't trying to be an outlaw writer. I never heard of that term somebody else made it up. But we were all outside the law: Kerouac, Miller, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Kesey I didn't have a gauge as to who was the worst outlaw. I just recognized allies: my people.
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You'd be surprised at the things people will do in order to get their names or pictures in the paper.
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I guess I'm just courtly until people get in my way. You'll find most Southerners are like that.
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I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
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