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The thing that was important to me about Hemingway at the time was that Hemingway taught me that you could be a writer and get away with it.

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Hunter S. Thompson
Age: 67 †
Born: 1937
Born: July 18
Died: 2005
Died: February 20
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Louisville
Kentucky
Hunter Stockton Thompson
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