“It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.”

—  Hunter S. Thompson

Source: Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80's

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American journalist and author 1937–2005

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