Hunter S. Thompson’s Birthday

Hunter Stockton Thompson was born July 18, 1939 in Louisville, Kentucky.

Here are a few quotes from the doctor:

America… just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile.

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.

The Edge… there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over

More here..

HST took his own life on February 20, 2005.

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