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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas quotes

Director: Terry Gilliam
 
Stars: Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro, Tobey Maguire

 

1.
Get in.

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2.
Jesus, did I say that? Or just think it?

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3.
We can't stop here. This is bat country.

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4.
Did you eat all this acid?

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5.
Too weird to live, too rare to die.

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6.
Once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.

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7.
What the fuck are these people talking about?

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8.
Raoul Duke: [Narrating] Ah, devil ether. It makes you behave like the village drunkard in some early Irish novel. Total loss of all basic motor skills. Blurred vision, no balance, numb tongue. The mind recoils in horror, unable to communicate with the spinal column. Which is interesting because you can actually watch yourself behaving in this terrible way, but you can't control it. You approach the turnstiles and know that when you get there, you have to give the man two dollars or he won't let you inside. But when you get there, everything goes wrong. Some angry rotarian shoves you and you think "What's happening here? What's going on?" And you hear yourself mumbling…

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9.
Was I talking? Did they hear me?

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10.
Ignore this terrible drug, pretend it's not happening.

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11.
There's two women fucking a polar bear.

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More Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas quotes

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 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. 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.

 

“Life was immeasurably better once I forced myself to stop taking it seriously”
—     Hunter S. Thompson

 

“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

 

[watching Dr. Gonzo leave]
Raoul Duke: 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.

“So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?”
—     Hunter S. Thompson

 

Raoul Duke: A drug person can learn to cope with things like seeing their dead grandmother crawling up their leg with a knife in her teeth. But no one should be asked to handle this trip.

 

“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming ‘Wow! What a ride!’”
—     ― Hunter S. Thompson

 

Raoul Duke: 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.

 

“It’s a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat shit and die.”
—     Hunter S. Thompson