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I don't think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It's lonely out here.
Hunter S. Thompson
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Hunter S. Thompson
Age: 67 †
Born: 1937
Born: July 18
Died: 2005
Died: February 20
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Hunter Stockton Thompson
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I was 22 when JFK was murdered, and I will never recover from it... Never.
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