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There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

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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Journalist
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Photographer
Politician
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Screenwriter
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Louisville
Kentucky
Hunter Stockton Thompson
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