Hunter S. Thompson’s book “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” is written in the gonzo journalism style.
The novel is a roman à clef based on autobiographical happenings that follows Raoul Duke and his attorney Dr. Gonzo on their drug-fueled misadventures.
I have handpicked some of the most popular quotes from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas novel.
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Quotes by Hunter S. Thompson
“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).
“Lucy paints portraits of Barbara Streisand.” ~ Hunter S. Thompson (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas).
“Kill the body and the head will die.” ~ Hunter S. Thompson (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas).
“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).
“I feel a powerful lust for red salmon. I agreed.” ~ Hunter S. Thompson (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas).
“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).
“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).
“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).
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Quotes from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
“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).
“There he goes. One of God’s own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.” ~ Hunter S. Thompson (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas).
“We’d be fools not to ride this strange torpedo all the way out to the end.” ~ Hunter S. Thompson (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas).
“Tune in, freak out, get beaten. It’s all in Kesey’s Bible. … The Far Side of Reality. And” ~ Hunter S. Thompson (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas).
“I felt like a monster reincarnation of Horatio Alger… a Man on the Move, and just sick enough to be totally confident.” ~ Hunter S. Thompson (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas).
“The possibility of physical and mental collapse is now very real. No sympathy for the Devil, keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride.” ~ Hunter S. Thompson (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas).
“It was dangerous lunacy, but it was also the kind of thing a real connoisseur of edge-work could make an argument for.” ~ Hunter S. Thompson (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas).
Top Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Quotes
“You cheap honky faggots,” he snarled. “Which one of you wants to get cut?” ~ Hunter S. Thompson (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas).
“With a bit of luck, his life was ruined forever. Always thinking that just behind some narrow door in all of his favorite bars, men in red woolen shirts are getting incredible kicks from things he’ll never know.” ~ Hunter S. Thompson (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas).
“Good people drink good beer.” ~ Hunter S. Thompson (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas).
“Who said anything about slicing you up? … I just wanted to carve a little Z on your forehead– nothing serious.” ~ Hunter S. Thompson (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas).
“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).
“You took too much man, too much, too much.” ~ Hunter S. Thompson (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas).
“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).
“Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas … with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether.” ~ Hunter S. Thompson (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas).
Famous Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Quotes
“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 consciousness expansion:” ~ Hunter S. Thompson (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas).
“Turn the goddam music up! My heart feels like an alligator!” ~ Hunter S. Thompson (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas).
“Buy the ticket, take the ride.” ~ Hunter S. Thompson (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas).
“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).
“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?” ~ Hunter S. Thompson (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas).
“Too weird to live, too rare to die!” ~ Hunter S. Thompson (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas).
“No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs. Reality itself is too twisted.” ~ Hunter S. Thompson (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas).
“What kind of rat bastard psychotic would play that song- right now, at this moment?” ~ Hunter S. Thompson (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas).
Amazing Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Quotes
“Still humping the American Dream.” ~ Hunter S. Thompson (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas).
“You better take care of me Lord, if you don’t you’re gonna have me on your hands.” ~ Hunter S. Thompson (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas).
“Take it from me, there’s nothing like a job well done. Except the quiet enveloping darkness at the bottom of a bottle of Jim Beam after a job done any way at all.” ~ 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).
“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).
“We can’t stop here, this is bat country!” ~ Hunter S. Thompson (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas).
“There was madness in any direction, at any hour. You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning.” ~ Hunter S. Thompson (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas).
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