“Sacrificing good men to journalism is like sending William Faulkner to work for Time magazine.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

Letter to Jerome H. Walker (7 December 1958), p. 142
1990s, The Proud Highway : The Fear and Loathing Letters Volume I (1997)

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American journalist and author 1937–2005

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