Kindle Quotes

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

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—	Hunter S. Thompson Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Vintage) (via )

I woke up about two hours later in a bar in downtown Lima.

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—	Hunter S. Thompson Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Vintage) (via )

A campaign for war is made upon as definite lines as a campaign for any other purpose. First, the people are worked upon. By clever tales the people’s suspicions are aroused toward the nation against whom war is desired. Make the nation suspicious; make the other nation suspicious. All you need for this is a few agents with some cleverness and no conscious and a press whose interest is locked up with the interests that will be benefited by war. Then the “overt act” will soon appear. It is no trick at all to get an “overt act” once you work the hatred of two nations up to the proper pitch.

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—	Hunter S. Thompson Kingdom of Fear (via L. Rice)

So I picked up the phone. It was my friend Bruce Innes, calling from the Circus-Circus. He had located the man who wanted to sell the ape I’d been inquiring about. The price was $750. “What kind of a greedhead are we dealing with?” I said. “Last night it was four hundred.” “He claims he just found out it was housebroken,” said Bruce. “He let it sleep in the trailer last night, and the thing actually shit in the shower stall.” “That doesn’t mean anything,” I said. “Apes are attracted to water. Next time it’ll shit in the sink.

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—	Hunter S. Thompson Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Vintage) (via A. Bakun)

You’re going to need plenty of legal advice before this thing is over,” he said. “And my first advice is that you should rent a very fast car with no top and get the hell out of L.A. for at least forty-eight hours.” He shook his head sadly. “This blows my weekend, because naturally I’ll have to go with you—and we’ll have to arm ourselves.

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—	Hunter S. Thompson Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Vintage) (via Paige Turner)

When Hubert Humphrey was running for president in 1968 and saw in the final hours that he was losing badly, his last desperate act was to switch his position on the war in Vietnam, hoping to win the anti-war vote that he needed to beat Nixon. … It failed, but not by much, and a whole generation of young politicians took notice. Selling ideology was not enough to win elections—not even when you pawned it in public for a mess of pottage. One field organizer told me, “Hell, I got more votes for Hubert by standing on a street corner and handing out $20 bills than Hubert did by telling that disgusting…

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—	Hunter S. Thompson Generation of Swine (via )

Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only real cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas. To

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—	Hunter S. Thompson Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Vintage) (via Mariana Carrascoza Hickman)

The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. And I knew we’d get into that rotten stuff pretty soon. Probably at the next gas station.

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—	Hunter S. Thompson Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Vintage) (via Werner)

The only real difference between the Sane and the Insane, in this world, is the Sane have the power to have the Insane locked up.

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—	Hunter S. Thompson Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century (via Greg)

I was getting a little too old to make powerful enemies when I held no cards at all, and I had lost some of my old zeal that had led me, in the past, to do what I damn well felt like doing, with the certain knowledge that I could always flee the consequences. I was tired of fleeing, and tired of having no cards. It occurred to me one evening, as I sat by myself in Al’s patio, that a man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long. I’d been doing it for ten years and I had a feeling that my reserve was running low.

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—	Hunter S. Thompson The Rum Diary (via Peter Scharmueller)