Hunter S. Thompson - If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 peopl...

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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

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Deutsche Übersetzung

Wenn ich die ganze Wahrheit geschrieben hätte, die ich in den letzten zehn Jahren wusste, würden heute etwa 600 Menschen - darunter auch ich - in Gefängniszellen von Rio nach Seattle verrotten. Absolute Wahrheit ist im Berufsjournalismus eine sehr seltene und gefährliche Ware.

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