“Hunter Thompson wrote suicide notes all his life.”
Source: Outlaw Journalist (2008), Chapter 7, Among The Angels, p. 97
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“And whether he wanted to be or not, he was famous.”
Source: Outlaw Journalist (2008), Chapter 12, Truth Is Never Told In Daylight, p. 201
“Perhaps the heart of the American Dream was found in the search.”
Source: Outlaw Journalist (2008), Chapter 11, Making A Beast Of Himself, p. 175
Source: Outlaw Journalist (2008), Chapter 8, American Dream, p. 115
Source: Outlaw Journalist (2008), Chapter 7, Among The Angels, p. 111
William McKeen Quotes about life
“Life as Hunter Thompson's mother was no weenie roast.”
Source: Outlaw Journalist (2008), Chapter 1, Getting Away With It, p. 1
“Friends picked up on the joke, and he was "the Good Doctor" for the rest of his life.”
Source: Outlaw Journalist (2008), Chapter 6, Stranger In A Strange Land, p. 89
Context: 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. He began referring to himself as Dr. Thompson and punctuated remarks with his afterword: "I am, after all, a doctor." Friends picked up on the joke, and he was "the Good Doctor" for the rest of his life.
“He kept growing. He thought it was very important to keep growing all your life.”
Source: Outlaw Journalist (2008), Chapter 18, Man of Letters, p. 346
William McKeen Quotes
“Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is perfect in the same way that The Great Gatsby is perfect.”
Preface, The End, p. xiv
Outlaw Journalist (2008)
Context: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is perfect in the same way that The Great Gatsby is perfect. Take a pencil and read these books, looking for something that doesn't sound right, something you'd want to change. You'll leave the page untouched.
Source: Outlaw Journalist (2008), Chapter 6, Stranger In A Strange Land, p. 89
Context: 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. He began referring to himself as Dr. Thompson and punctuated remarks with his afterword: "I am, after all, a doctor." Friends picked up on the joke, and he was "the Good Doctor" for the rest of his life.
Preface, The End, p. xv
Outlaw Journalist (2008)
“His writing could be classified as metajournalism, journalism about the process of journalism.”
Source: Outlaw Journalist (2008), Chapter 5, Observer, p. 73
Context: In these letters to Ridley, Hunters Gonzo style began to rear its head. One of the characteristics of the style Hunter developed was his preoccupation of getting the story. In fact, getting the story became the story. His writing could be classified as metajournalism, journalism about the process of journalism.
“The Dream obsessed him … but what was it?”
Source: Outlaw Journalist (2008), Chapter 8, American Dream, p. 118
Context: The Dream obsessed him... but what was it? Was it Horatio Alger, rags to riches, the idea that you could start with nothing and end up rolling naked in stacks of hundreds? Or was it a dream of freedom? Personal freedom... or the concept of freedom that the founders brought into the whole world?
“To the generation of young political reporters, Hunter was Mount Rushmore, a living god on earth.”
Source: Outlaw Journalist (2008), Chapter 14, Casualties Of War, p. 244
“This writing wasn't painful. It was like being high.”
Source: Outlaw Journalist (2008), Chapter 11, Making A Beast Of Himself, p. 166
“The lifestyle of the character he had created had consumed him.”
Source: Outlaw Journalist (2008), Chapter 14, Casualties Of War, p. 245
Source: Outlaw Journalist (2008), Chapter 3, The Dark Thumb Of Fate, p. 47
Source: Outlaw Journalist (2008), Chapter 2, Square Peg, Round Hole, p. 23
“Some of the locals began to think that maybe Hunter was getting out of control.”
Source: Outlaw Journalist (2008), Chapter 16, The Genetic Miracle, p. 299
Source: Outlaw Journalist (2008), Chapter 13, Celebrity, p. 224
Source: Outlaw Journalist (2008), Chapter 17, Homecoming, p. 324
“But he discovered his success later, when he began to write just like he talked.”
Source: Outlaw Journalist (2008), Chapter 5, Observer, p. 74
“Nothing infuriates an academic more than a talented and successful colleague.”
Source: Outlaw Journalist (2008), Chapter 17, Homecoming, p. 329
“He wrote his mother that he had begun to hate the sight of his typewriter.”
Source: Outlaw Journalist (2008), Chapter 9, Epiphany, p. 131
“Hunter couldn't stop working. McCumber remembered Hunter working nine days without sleep.”
Source: Outlaw Journalist (2008), Chapter 16, The Genetic Miracle, p. 302
In fact, getting the story became the story. His writing could be classified as metajournalism, journalism about the process of journalism.
Source: Outlaw Journalist (2008), Chapter 5, Observer, p. 73
