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Whatever he might have denied me was unimportant it was the fact that he could deny me anything at all, even what I didn't want
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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Platitudes are safe, because they're easy to wink at, but truth is something else again.
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He had that rare weird electricity about him - that extremely wild and heavy presence that you only see in a person who has abandoned all hope of ever behaving normally.
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