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Sandy Thompson: Hunter was born different—Very different. He was angry. He was charming. He was a lot of trouble. What I always used to say was that he shot out of the womb angry. And then he left that same way.

Tom Wolfe: Hunter was the only twentieth century equivalent of Mark Twain. Twin would take dignified things and show their idiocy with a few changes. It was very subtle compared to Hunter. Instead of saying, "Let's put this thing up against a wall, " Hunter would say, "Let's just go through the wall."

Juan Thompson: He very deliberately did not have a final goodbye. He didn't want to let on. It was a really nice afternoon. He was reading the paper, and me and Jen were reading, and I was taking a picture of something for Jen, and I think that he decided then, that was the moment. I think he'd been hanging in there for a long time and just got tired of it. I was in the back office when he pulled the trigger.