The Life and Times of Hunter S. Thompson

“We are all wired into a survival trip now. No more of the speed that fuelled the 60’s. That was the fatal flaw in Tim Leary’s trip. He crashed around America selling “consciousness expansion” without ever giving a thought to the grim meat-hook realities that were lying in wait for all the people who took him seriously…all those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought they could buy Peace and Understanding for three bucks a hit. But their loss and failure is ours too. What Leary took down with him was the central illusion of a whole life-style that he helped create…a generation of permanent cripples, failed seekers, who never understood the essential old-mystic fallacy of the Acid Culture: the desperate assumption that somebody…or at least some force - is tending the light at the end of the tunnel.” Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (via strangetalesfromastrangetime)

“The sporting editors had also given me $300 in cash, most of which was already spent of extremely dangerous drugs. The trunk of the car looked like a mobile police narcotics lab. We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers… and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.” Hunter S. Thompson (via miroirsale)

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“But after awhile you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth.” Hunter S. Thompson (via tretretretretre)

“You better take care of me Lord, if you don’t you’re gonna have me on your hands.” Raoul Duke (via mrmonst3r)