Always With The Negative Waves, Moriarty!

July 11th, 2009

01:12 pm - Quotes found highlighted after a recent re-reading of Fear & Loathing
* "Not that we needed all for the trip but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can."

* "This is the main advantage of 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--severance of all connection between the body and the brain. Which is interesting, because the brain continues to function more or less normally... you can actually watch yourself behaving in this terrible way, but you can't control it."

* "One of the things you learn, after years of dealing with drug people, it that everything is serious. You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug--especially when it's waving a razor-sharp hunting knife in your eyes."

* "No! I thought. I must be hallucinating. There's nobody back there, nobody calling... it's a paranoid delusion, amphetamine psychosis... just keep walking towards the car, always smiling...."

* "...I knew he understood our position: We were past the point of debating the wisdom of this move; it was already done, and our only hope was to get to the other side."

* "The only hope now, I felt, was the possibility that we'd gone to such excess, with our gig, that nobody in a position to bring the hammer down on us could possibly believe it... When you bring an act into this town, you want to bring it in heavy. Don't waste any time with cheap shucks and misdemeanors. Go straight for the jugular. Get right into felonies."
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