"I went to the Democratic Convention as a journalist, and returned a raving beast. For me, that week in Chicago was far worse than the worst bad acid trip I'd even heard rumors about. It permanently altered my brain chemistry…"
— Hunter S. Thompson

January 1, 1970

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Variant: I went to the Democratic Convention as a journalist, and returned a cold-blooded revolutionary. — As quoted in the editors note by Douglas Brinkley, in Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist (2000), p. xvi