#10 - HELPLESS AND IRRESPONSIBLE
“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 multicolored collection 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 . . .”
—Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, 1971

#09 - EXTREME REALITY
“The Sixties were an era of extreme reality. I miss the smell of tear gas. I miss the fear of getting beaten.”
—Independent on Sunday, October 12, 1997

#08 - LIVING PROOF
“Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow confines of most men’s reality. Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of ‘the rat race’ is not yet final.”
—The Great Shark Hunt, 1979

#07 - DANGEROUS COMMODITY
#06 - DISCO
#05 - PURE GIBBERISH
#04 - FEAR
#03 - LAUNCHING PLACE
#02 - PANICKED SHEEP
#01 - EAT SHIT AND DIE

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Top 10 Hunter S. Thompson Quotes (AlternativeReel)