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A little bit of this town goes a very long way. After five days in Vegas you feel like you've been here for five years.Hunter S. Thompson , "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream"
All energy flows according to the whims of the great Magnet. What a fool I was to defy him.Hunter S. Thompson , "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream"
But after a while 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.Hunter S. Thompson , "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream"
But our trip was different. It was a classic affirmation of everything right and true and decent in the national character. It was a gross, physical salute to the fantastic possibilities of life in this country-but only for those with true grit. And we were chock full of that.Hunter S. Thompson , "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream"
God's original prototype, too weird to live, too rare to die.Hunter S. Thompson , "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream"
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: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream"
I blew the horn a few times, hoping to call up an iguana. Get the buggers moving. They were out there, I knew, in that goddamn sea of cactus--hunkered down, barely breathing, and every one of the stinking little bastards was loaded with deadly poison.Hunter S. Thompson , "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream"
I was asleep when our plane hit the runway, but the jolt brought me instantly awake. I looked out the window and saw the Rocky Mountains. What the fuck was I doing here? I wondered. It made no sense at all. I decided to call my attorney as soon as possible. Have him wire me some money to buy a huge albino Doberman. Denver is a national clearing house for stolen Dobermans; they come from all parts of the country.Hunter S. Thompson , "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream"
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: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream"
Jesus Creeping God! Is there a priest in this tavern? I want to confess! I'm a fucking sinner! Venal, mortal, carnal, major, minor - however you want to call it, Lord... I'm guilty.Hunter S. Thompson , "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream"
Jesus! Did I SAY that? Or just think it? Was I talking? Did they hear me? I glanced over at my attorney, but he seemed oblivious...Hunter S. Thompson , "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream"
Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run, but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant.Hunter S. Thompson , "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream"
My blood is too thick for California: I have never been able to properly explain myself in this climate.Hunter S. Thompson , "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream"
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 off to forced conscious expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten.Hunter S. Thompson , "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream"
No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs. Reality itself is too twisted.Hunter S. Thompson , "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream"
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