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Sportswriters are a rude and brainless subculture of fascist drunks
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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Journalist
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Louisville
Kentucky
Hunter Stockton Thompson
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I may sound a little black, but I'm really pretty well adjusted.
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