Famous Quotes | If I’d written all the truth I...

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
Attribution: Hunter S. Thompson (b. 1939), U.S. journalist. repr. in The Great Shark Hunt, pt. 1 (1979). “Fear and Loathing at the Superbowl,” Rolling Stone (New York, Feb. 15, 1973).

Categories: Journalism And Journalists, Journalist

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