“Hunter Thompson wrote suicide notes all his life.”
Source: Outlaw Journalist (2008), Chapter 7, Among The Angels, p. 97
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“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.
“Life as Hunter Thompson's mother was no weenie roast.”
Source: Outlaw Journalist (2008), Chapter 1, Getting Away With It, p. 1
“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