Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (novel) Quotes
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“"Goddamn, What day is it; Saturday? -More Like Sunday.”
“"Even a goddamn were-wolf is entitled to legal counsel..."”
“The possibility of complete mental and physical collapse is now very real.”
“This is not a good town for psychedelic drugs. Reality itself is too twisted.”
“After West Point and the Priesthood, LSD must have seemed entirely logical to him...”
“Shoot the pasties off the nipples of a ten-foot bull-dyke and win a cotton-candy goat.”
“No point mentioning those bats, I thought. The poor bastard will see them soon enough.”
“"Order some golf shoes," I whispered. "Otherwise, we'll never get out of this place alive..."”
“We're right in the middle of a fucking reptile zoo! And somebody's giving booze to these goddamn things!”
“You'd better take care of me, Lord...because if you don't you're going to have me on your hands.”
“I felt like a monster reincarnation of Horatio Alger: A man on the move, and just sick enough to be totally confident.”
“In a scene where nobody with any ambition is really what he appears to be, there’s not much risk in acting like a king-hell freak.”
“I shrugged. "That's not me", I said. "That's a guy named Thompson". He works for Rolling Stone... a really vicious crazy kind of person.”
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“Getting hold of the drugs had been no problem, but the car and the tape recorder were not easy things to round up at 6:30 on a Friday afternoon in Hollywood.”
“This will not be a happy run. Not even the Sun God wants to watch. He has gone behind a cloud for the first time in three days. No sun at all. The sky is grey and ugly.”
“There was evidence in this room, of excessive consumption of almost every type of drug known to civilized man since 1544 A.D. It could only be explained as a montage,”
“When you bring an act into this town, you want to bring it heavy. Don't waste any time with cheap shucks and misdemeanors. Go straight for the jugular. Get right into felonies.”
“"I hate to say this," said my attorney as we sat down at the Merry-Go-Round Bar on the second balcony, "but this place is getting to me. I think I'm getting the Fear."”
“"Lizards?" he said. "If you think we're in trouble now, wait till you see what's happening in the elevators." He took off his Brazilian sunglasses and I could see he'd been crying.”