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On my tombstone they will carve, IT NEVER GOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME.
Hunter S. Thompson
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Hunter S. Thompson
Age: 67 †
Born: 1937
Born: July 18
Died: 2005
Died: February 20
Autobiographer
Essayist
Journalist
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Politician
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Louisville
Kentucky
Hunter Stockton Thompson
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It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.
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