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- “Who are these people, these faces? Where do they come from? They look like caricatures of used car dealers from Dallas, and sweet Jesus, there were a hell of a lot of them at 4:30 on a Sunday morning, still humping the American dream, that vision of the big winner somehow emerging from the last minute pre-dawn chaos of a stale Vegas casino.”
- “We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a saltshaker half-full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers… Also, a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls.
- “As your attorney, I advise you to take a hit out of the little brown bottle in my shaving kit. You won’t need much, just a tiny taste.” - Dr. Gonzo.
- Raoul Duke: A drug person can learn to cope with things like seeing their dead grandmother crawling up their leg with a knife in her teeth. But no one should be asked to handle this trip.
- Hunter S. Thompson
- 1971
- “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...
- “Too weird to live, too rare to die!” ― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
- “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.
- “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...
20 of the best book quotes from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. 01. “I tell you, my man, this is the American Dream in action! We’d be fools not to ride this strange torpedo all the way out to the end.”. Hunter S. Thompson. author. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. book. Raoul Duke.
In the iconic novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, the quote "The sporting editors had long since grown weary of trying to describe the bizarre and chronically unending shock that came out of Las Vegas" captures the sheer astonishment and bewildering nature of the city.
The best Quotes from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream is a 1971 novel in the gonzo journalism style by Hunter S. Thompson.
The quote from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, "Bazooko's Circus is what the whole hep world would be doing Saturday nights if the Nazis had won the war," paints a vivid and disturbing picture of a dystopian world where chaos and depravity reign supreme.
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