♥ 36
→ 29 May 12 at 3 pm
→ 29 May 12 at 3 pm
Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
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Aqueous Transmission
As you were, I was. As I am, you will be.
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♥ 143
→ 24 May 12 at 3 pm
→ 24 May 12 at 3 pm
Dr. Hunter S. Thompson - The Rolling Stone Interviews
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"I’ve said before, The Great Gatsby is possibly the Great American Novel, if you look at it as a technical achievement. It’s about 55,000 words, which was astounding to me. In Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas, I tried to compete with that. It was one of the basic guiding principles for my writing. I’ve always competed with that. Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life. Shoot, I couldn’t match 55,000 no matter how I chopped. There are few things that I read and say, ‘Boy, I wish I could write that.’ Damn few. The Book of Revelation is one. Gatsby is one."
♥ 226
→ 20 May 12 at 8 am
→ 20 May 12 at 8 am
Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
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"I have no idea what to say, I don’t know when I’ll see you again and I don’t believe in anything beyond the next ten minutes. People keep calling me and telling me what a great friend I am. Everybody is looking for someone who can stand up in the wind. It is lonely standing up and crowded lying down. I refuse to be an anchor for other people’s dreams – but then I refuse to anchor mine to anyone else. So I have no choice but to stand up and piss into the wind. Pardon my vulgarity."
"Anybody who wanders around the world saying, “Hell yes, I’m from Texas,” deserves whatever happens to him."
"It would prove to be a memorable, historic weekend. And it began, as so many of Thompson’s adventures would, with drinks at a bar."
"There is no such thing as paranoia; the real situation is always worse than you imagine."
