“If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.”

—  Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72

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American journalist and author 1937–2005

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