Favorite line from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas?

[A_C_Slater]

"The Circus circus is what the entire hip world would be doing on a Saturday night... If the Nazi's had won the war."

[PoBoy321]

Raoul Duke: I was right in the middle of a [censored] reptile zoo, and somebody was giving booze to these goddamn things. Won't be long now before they tear us to shreds.


Raoul Duke: 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 uppers, downers, laughers, screamers... Also, a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can. 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.

[A_C_Slater]

"Who are these people at 5 A.M. on a Vegas morning? These faces? Still humping away at the American dream."

[Jezebel]

[Watching Dr. Gonzo leave]
Raoul Duke: There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.

[A_C_Slater]

Raoul Duke on the death of Richard Nixon. A Rolling Stone obituary:


"He was a swine of a man. And a jabbering dupe as a President. He was queer in the deepest way. His body should have been burned in a trash bin."

[cnfuzzd]

Indeed. But what is sane? Especially here in "our own country"-in the doomstruck ero of Nixon. We are all wired into a *survival* trip now. No more of the speed that fueled the Sixties. Uppers are going out of style. This was the fatal flaw in Tim Leary's trip. He crashed aroun America elling "consciousness expansion" without ever giving a thought to the grim meat-hook realities that were lying in wait for all he people who took him too seriously. After WEst Point and the Priesthoo, LSD must have seemed entirely logical o him... but there is not much satisfaction in knowing that he blew it very badly for himself, because he took too many others down with him.

Not that they didn't deserve is: No doubt they all Got What Was Coming To Them. All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought they could buy Peace and Understanding for three bucks a hit. But their loss and failure is ours, too. What Leary took down with him was the central illusion of a whole life-style that he helped to create.... a generation of permanent cripples, failed seekers, who never understood the essential old-mystic fallacy of the Acid Culture: the desperate assumption that somebody-or at least some *force*-is tending that Light at the end of the tunnel.


peace

john nickle

[IndieMatty]

More responses needed for this one. Great book. Great movie.

Raoul Duke: 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.

[Blarg]

I don't remember many of the lines, but that truly was a great book and a pretty good movie too. Thompson's book on Hawaii was good too, and his Hells Angels was also really good. Wasn't as crazy about The Great Shark Hunt, but it still had plenty of good moments.

[tek]

The book was great. The movie sucked big time. Johnny Dep who is usually great couldn't make the movie work. Not every book can be filmed...

[jakethebake]

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The book was great. The movie sucked big time. Johnny Dep who is usually great couldn't make the movie work. Not every book can be filmed...

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J.D. is usually pretty good, but he chooses horrible scripts. I never read this book, and didn't make it through 20 mins of the movie.