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The lifestyle of the character he had created had consumed him.
Outlaw Journalist (2008)
Nothing infuriates an academic more than a talented and successful colleague.
Outlaw Journalist (2008)
For a man complaining about the agony of celebrity, he wasn't doing anything to stop perpetuating his image as America's premier outlaw journalist.
Outlaw Journalist (2008)
Hunter Thompson wrote suicide notes all his life.
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Friends picked up on the joke, and he was "the Good Doctor" for the rest of his life.
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Barger thought Hunter provoked Junkie George so that the beating could be used as a gimmick to promote the book.
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And whether he wanted to be or not, he was famous.
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His writing could be classified as metajournalism, journalism about the process of journalism.
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The Dream obsessed him ... but what was it?
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To create a balance of power and pedigree in the house, Hunter sent five bucks off to an ad he'd seen in the back pages of a magazine and received his mail-order doctor-of-divinity degree.
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But he discovered his success later, when he began to write just like he talked.
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Some of the locals began to think that maybe Hunter was getting out of control.
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He wrote his mother that he had begun to hate the sight of his typewriter.
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To the generation of young political reporters, Hunter was Mount Rushmore, a living god on earth.
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Perhaps the heart of the American Dream was found in the search.
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Life as Hunter Thompson's mother was no weenie roast.
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He kept growing. He thought it was very important to keep growing all your life.
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This writing wasn't painful. It was like being high.
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The latest firing had put him at a crossroads: he could continue with the fantasy of being a writer, or he could actually make the commitment.
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His journalism was usually about journalism: no matter what he started out off writing about, he ended up writing about Hunter Thompson trying to cover a story.
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