It had been a bad trip ... fast and wild in some moments, slow and dirty in others, but on balance it looked like a bummer. On my way back to San Francisco, I tried to compose a fitting epitaph. I wanted something original, but there was no escaping the echo of Mistah Kurtz' final words from the heart of darkness: "The horror! The horror! ... Exterminate all the brutes!

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Mots clés horror epitaph exterminate

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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 the terrible way, but you can't control it.

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Kill the body and the head will die.

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Mots clés humor drugs american-dream biography

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I have tonight begun reading a stupid, shitty book by Kerouac called Big Sur, and I would give a ball to wake up tomorrow on some empty ridge with a herd of beatniks grazing in the clearing about 200 yards below the house. And then to squat with the big boomer and feel it on my shoulder with the smell of grease and powder and, later, a little blood.

Hunter S. Thompson

Mots clés letters criticism correspondence hunting kerouac big-sur beatnik 1962

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Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.

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You'd better take care of me, Lord. If you don't, you're gonna have me on your hands.

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Oh ignorant youth, the world is not a joyous place.

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There’s a lot of things wrong with this country, but one of the few things still right with it is that a man can steer clear of the organized bullshit if he really wants to. It’s a goddamned luxury, and if I were you, I’d take advantage of it while you can.

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Mots clés america self independence 1968

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Can I get to the bottle of Old Crow and mix it up with the remains of these ice fragments...a cool drink for the freak? Give the gentleman something cool, dear, can't you see he's wired his brain to the water pump and his ears to the generator...

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You people voted for Hubert Humphrey and killed Jesus!

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Mots clés fear-and-loathing-in-las-vegas

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