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Hunter was a letter-writing machine Hunter was a letter-writing machine
Posted by: hunterbiter

Video duration: 536 seconds

"For every letter here, there are 12 or 15 let out. But I had to listen to these things for a year. The editor Doug Brinkley & my son & his wife parading these things in front of me. Started saying: 'Well, how bout this one, Hunter. Calm down.' And then: Who is this? Who is that? So I had to rake my memories." [Hunter S. Thompson]

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Hunter shmoozes about William Kennedy Hunter shmoozes about William Kennedy
Posted by: hunterbiter

Video duration: 570 seconds

"Bill Kennedy--the eminent novelist--was then the managing editor of The San Juan Star. He was a journalist. I was a novelist. He refused to hire me. Called me a swine, fool, beatnik. We go way back ... It's not often that you try to get a job on a junk-newspaper. And find Kennedy struggling along as a managing editor." [Hunter S. Thompson]

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Hunter shmoozes about Dubya Hunter shmoozes about Dubya
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Video duration: 508 seconds

HUNTER ON ONE OF DUBYA'S SPEECHES: "And during the last section of it--well, he was glistening. He got that kind of religious zeal. It came over him. Like he was not quite glowing but glistening."

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Hunter talks about his letters to Lyndon Johnson Hunter talks about his letters to Lyndon Johnson
Posted by: hunterbiter

Video duration: 504 seconds

"Like when I applied for a job as the governor of American Samoa. I really believed that I was the best person. I thought I was still in the running when I got pissed off about his Vietnam policy enough to write to him and say: take my name off the list." [Hunter S. Thompson]

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Hunter on POLO IS MY LIFE Hunter on POLO IS MY LIFE
Posted by: hunterbiter

Video duration: 361 seconds

"It's about how I joined the polo crowd. By accident." [Hunter S. Thompson]

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Hunter reads a letter that he wrote to Charles Kuralt Hunter reads a letter that he wrote to Charles Kuralt
Posted by: hunterbiter

Video duration: 368 seconds

"I didn't find out that I was really a monster. That I betrayed my friends as a youth. And walked on their heads. And was a liar. My main problem was: I wasn't making enough money." [Hunter S. Thompson]

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Hunter doesn\ Hunter doesn't equate himself with Paul Kemp
Posted by: hunterbiter

Video duration: 438 seconds

"My sensibilites really inform all the characters. I tried to split myself up. I tried to do what Fitzgerald did with GATSBY. Using the Nick Carraway character and Jimmy Gatz. They're both the same people. One of them's looking from outside." [Hunter S. Thompso

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Hunter opposed the Iraq invasion Hunter opposed the Iraq invasion
Posted by: hunterbiter

Video duration: 417 seconds

HUNTER ON THE IRAQ INVASION: "I think it's a beastly, monumentally stupid mistake for the country."

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Hunter expatiates on historic degenerate eye-sag Hunter expatiates on historic degenerate eye-sag
Posted by: hunterbiter

Video duration: 279 seconds

"I didn't see the historic degenerate sag in your eyes that you get from Louisville." [Hunter S. Thompson]

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Hunter\ Hunter's letter collection is tragically short of incoming
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Hunter on THE KENTUCKY DERBY IS DECADENT & DEPRAVED: "That's when I discovered what is now the fax machine. Then, it was the Xerox telecopier. Horrible thing that smoked and put off weird gases. But you could transmit a page from here to San Francisco in minutes."

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