William McKeen Short Quotes

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And whether he wanted to be or not, he was famous.

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This writing wasn't painful. It was like being high.

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Life as Hunter Thompson's mother was no weenie roast.

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The lifestyle of the character he had created had consumed him.

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Perhaps the heart of the American Dream was found in the search.

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He wrote his mother that he had begun to hate the sight of his typewriter.

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Nothing infuriates an academic more than a talented and successful colleague.

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Some of the locals began to think that maybe Hunter was getting out of control.

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He kept growing. He thought it was very important to keep growing all your life.

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But he discovered his success later, when he began to write just like he talked.

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Hunter couldn't stop working. McCumber remembered Hunter working nine days without sleep.

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To the generation of young political reporters, Hunter was Mount Rushmore, a living god on earth.

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Barger thought Hunter provoked Junkie George so that the beating could be used as a gimmick to promote the book.

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The latest firing had put him at a crossroads: he could continue with the fantasy of being a writer, or he could actually make the commitment.

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For a man complaining about the agony of celebrity, he wasn't doing anything to stop perpetuating his image as America's premier outlaw journalist.

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His journalism was usually about journalism: no matter what he started out off writing about, he ended up writing about Hunter Thompson trying to cover a story.

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