“I knew a Buddhist once, and I've hated myself ever since. The whole thing was a failure.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

2000s, Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century (2004)
Source: Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century

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American journalist and author 1937–2005

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