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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 wanted to take off all my clothes and never wear them again.
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Journalism, to me, is just another drug - a free ride to scenes I'd probably miss if I stayed straight.
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The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.
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Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can't reach.
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There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.
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They don't hardly make 'em like him any more - but just to be on the safe side, he should be castrated anyway.
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