“The greatest mania of all is passion: and I am a natural slave to passion: the balance between my brain and my soul and my body is as wild and delicate as the skin of a Ming vase.”

—  Hunter S. Thompson , book The Curse of Lono

Source: The Curse of Lono

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American journalist and author 1937–2005

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