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At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards.
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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Kentucky
Hunter Stockton Thompson
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Writing is the flip side of sex - it's good only when it's over.
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I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn't know I could commit suicide at any time.
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