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We have bigger things to brood on and enormous reasons for wallowing in terminal craziness until we finally hit bottom.

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
Novelist
Photographer
Politician
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Louisville
Kentucky
Hunter Stockton Thompson
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