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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas QUOTES

1 " No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it up to forced consciousness expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten. "

― Hunter S. Thompson , Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

2 " Hallucinations are bad enough. But after awhile you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth. Most acid fanciers can handle this sort of thing. But nobody can handle that other trip-the possibility that any freak with $1.98 can walk into the Circus-Circus and suddenly appear in the sky over downtown Las Vegas twelve times the size of God, howling anything that comes into his head. No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs. "

― Hunter S. Thompson , Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

3 " KNOW YOUR DOPE FIEND. YOUR LIFE MAY DEPEND ON IT! You will not be able to see his eyes because of the Tea-Shades, but his knuckles will be white from inner tension and his pants will be crusted with semen from constantly jacking off when he can't find a rape victim. He will stagger and babble when questioned. He will not respect your badge. The Dope Fiend fears nothing. He will attack, for no reason, with every weapon at his command-including yours. BEWARE. Any officer apprehending a suspected marijuana addict should use all necessary force immediately. One stitch in time (on him) will usually save nine on you. Good luck.
-The Chief "

― Hunter S. Thompson , Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

4 " In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. "

― Hunter S. Thompson , Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

5 " What do you want? Where's the goddamn ice I ordered? Where's the booze? There's a war on, man! People are being killed! "

― Hunter S. Thompson , Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

6 " The waitress had the appearance of a very old hooker who had finally found her place in life "

― Hunter S. Thompson , Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

7 " History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of “history” it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time—and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened. "

― Hunter S. Thompson , Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

8 " This place is like the Army: the shark ethic prevails--eat the wounded. In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. "

― Hunter S. Thompson , Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

9 " How many more nights and weird mornings can this terrible shit go on? How long can the body and the brain tolerate this doom-struck craziness? This grinding of teeth, this pouring of sweat, this pounding of blood in the temples… small blue veins gone amok in front of the ears, sixty and seventy hours with no sleep. "

― Hunter S. Thompson , Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

10 " The reefer butt is called a 'roach' because it resembles a cockroach… cockroach… cockroach… "

― Hunter S. Thompson , Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

11 " We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.
Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can. "

― Hunter S. Thompson , Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

12 " We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. "

― Hunter S. Thompson , Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

13 " Ignore that nightmare in the bathroom. Just another ugly refugee from the Love Generation, some doom-struck gimp who couldn't handle the pressure. My attorney has never been able to accept the notion—often espoused by reformed drug abusers and especially popular among those on probation—that you can get a lot higher without drugs than with them. And neither have I, for that matter. "

― Hunter S. Thompson , Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

14 " How long can we maintain? I wonder. How long before one of us starts raving and jabbering at this boy? What will he think then? This same lonely desert was the last known home of the Manson family. Will he make that grim connection.. "

― Hunter S. Thompson , Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

15 " What sells, today, is whatever Fucks You Up - whatever short-circuits your brain and grounds it out for the longest possible time. "

― Hunter S. Thompson , Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

16 " Kill the body and the head will die. "

― Hunter S. Thompson , Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

17 " Too weird to live, too rare to die! "

― Hunter S. Thompson , Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

18 " The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs and misfits—a false doorway to the backside of life, a filthy piss-ridden little hole nailed off by the building inspector, but just deep enough for a wino to curl up from the sidewalk and masturbate like a chimp in a zoo-cage. "

― Hunter S. Thompson , Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

19 " Buy the ticket, take the ride. "

― Hunter S. Thompson , Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

20 " Good people drink good beer. "

― Hunter S. Thompson , Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas