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There might be some serious fun in politics.
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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Kentucky
Hunter Stockton Thompson
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America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
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Sportswriters are a rude and brainless subculture of fascist drunks
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Myths and legends die hard in America.
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I had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth.
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