“You'd be surprised at the things people will do in order to get their names or pictures in the paper.”

—  Hunter S. Thompson

Letter to Judy Stellings (18 November 1956), p. 30
1990s, The Proud Highway : The Fear and Loathing Letters Volume I (1997)

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