The best Quotes from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

The best Quotes from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream is a 1971 novel in the gonzo journalism style by Hunter S. Thompson. It was later adapted into a film of the same title in 1998 by director Terry Gilliam, starring Johnny Depp and Benicio del Toro, who portrayed Raoul Duke and Dr. Gonzo, respectively.

Ah, devil ether. It makes you behave like the village drunkard in some early Irish novel. Total loss of all basic motor function. Blurred vision, no balance, numb tongue. The mind recoils in horror, unable to communicate with the spinal column.

Raoul Duke

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We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a saltshaker half-full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... 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 locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.

Raoul Duke

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We can't stop here! This is bat country!

Raoul Duke

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You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see. But you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel.

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Heart Feelings & Emotions Seeing

If you love two people at the same time, choose the second one, because if you really loved the first one you wouldn't have fallen for the second.

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Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.

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Love Laughing & Smile Breathing

My Body is my Journal, and my Tattoos are my Story.

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There are four questions of value in life. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

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I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.

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Just keep moving forward and don't give a shit about what anybody thinks. Do what you have to do, for you.

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I'm not sure I'm adult yet.

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Anything I've done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.

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Parents Birth Father & Daughter

I think the thing to do is enjoy the ride while you're on it.

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Moments Positive Quotes

Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.

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If you catch me saying 'I am a serious actor,' I beg you to slap me.

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There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.

Hunter S. Thompson

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

Hunter S. Thompson

Alcohol Drugs Craziness & Weirdness

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

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Some may never live, but the crazy never die.

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Craziness & Weirdness

Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond.

Hunter S. Thompson

I've given up asking questions. l merely float on a tsunami of acceptance of anything life throws at me... and marvel stupidly.

Terry Gilliam

Television and the media are everywhere and they are taking over so powerfully. They don't shut up for a second. So you are unable to think.

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Media Television

I don't do drugs. I've got enough bizarre chemicals floating around in my head. I'm just naturally like this.

Terry Gilliam - Mai 1998

Because I dislike being quoted I lie almost constantly when talking about my work.

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Gorillaz virtually changed my wife... sorry, I mean, life... no, actually, it was my wife.

Terry Gilliam

I just like the fact I can make a film which might give comfort to some people who think they are the only crazy person in the world and suddenly they see there are two crazy people in the world.

Terry Gilliam

Fantasy isn't just a jolly escape: It's an escape, but into something far more extreme than reality, or normality. It's where things are more beautiful and more wondrous and more terrifying.

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In the end, people have to learn to live together. That is what I didn't like about America - it is so homogeneous. I like places where there are people who are different culturally, physically, in every way. And I like to see how they succeed in living together.

Terry Gilliam - Terry Gilliam's flying circus (2006)

We took up the offer with the BBC, and that was Monty Python's Flying Circus. I didn't have to submit my ideas to the group. I used to turn up on the days we recorded with a can of film under my arm, and in it went.

Terry Gilliam

Monty Python's Flying Circus

I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods.

Terry Gilliam

Hyperbole is something I'd better avoid.

Terry Gilliam

I want this on my tombstone:
Here lies Terry Gilliam
RIP
He giggled in awe.

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We stole the Statue of Liberty! The small one, from Las Vegas. I won't even mention the Eiffel Tower - also Vegas.

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Phil, you let this dude [Dennis Rodman] go to vacation, we not gonna see him. You let him go to Vegas, we definitely not gonna see him.

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Dennis Rodman Las Vegas

Las Vegas is the boiling pot of entertainment.

Don Rickles

No. Well, yes - experience.

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Las Vegas Gambling

I shouldn't be near Vegas and have money in my pocket.

Adam Sandler

Man, I really like Vegas.

Elvis Presley

Don't do drugs, don't have unprotected sex, don't be violent... leave that to me.

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Sex Violence Drugs

Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.

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Alcohol Drugs Marijuana & Weed

It's not the drugs that make a drug addict, it's the need to escape reality.

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Your cells age at half the rate of a normal human. When you're 40, you'll still have the leucocytes of a teenager.

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