“Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have to know the material you're writing about before you alter it.”

—  Hunter S. Thompson

Associated Press interview (2003) http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3404272/ <br class="br">2000s

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American journalist and author 1937–2005

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