“Platitudes are safe, because they're easy to wink at, but truth is something else again.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

Letter to William J. Kennedy (29 October 1959), p. 192
1990s, The Proud Highway : The Fear and Loathing Letters Volume I (1997)

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American journalist and author 1937–2005

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