The lifestyle of the character he had created had consumed him.
Quotes from Outlaw Journalist — William McKeen
born 1954 United States
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Nothing infuriates an academic more than a talented and successful colleague.
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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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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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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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Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: William McKeen (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.