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Born: July 18, 1937 or 1939
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"Thompson did not disappoint. We did not have much time together
before the speech.  He walked in and introduced himself, and shook hands
like a normal human being. He was soft-spoken and polite, even if he did mumble a bit. He was certainly not the mad-dog reporter I had
half-expected.
We sat in a lounge near the stage and talked about my words of introduction and the format of the talk. It was a
rather bluenose college, and so he would not be allowed his usual bottle of Wild Turkey on sate. Yet he needed something to keep his fires
idling before facing the audience. He unzipped the athletic bag — his only luggage — parted the newspapers and clothes within, and pulled out a 'live' Lowenbrau.
It was open and foaming on his
clothes. He quickly guzzled the last of the beer, then tossed the bottle across the room into the garbage can. 'Let's go,' he said"
— Dr. William McKeen about his encounter with Hunter
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"If  there's anything I've
learned, it's that you can turn
your back on a person, but you
can never turn your back on a
drug. Especially when it's waving
a razor sharp hunting knife in
front of you."
— Hunter S. Thompson
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"We had two bags of Grass,
seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets  of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half-full of cocaine and a whole galaxy of multicolored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers.... also a quart of tequila, a
quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls ... not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get
locked in a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can..."
— Hunter S. Thompson
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recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for
me."