Quote For April 23 2009
“Old elephants limp off to the hills to die; old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves to death with huge cars.”
– Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, 1971
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We can’t stop here, this is bat country
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i prefer “i feel the same way about disco as i do about herpes”
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well I could, of course, flip to nearly any page in any Thompson book I have and find something quotable… something just struck me at that moment and I had to share it. Probably the fact that it’s so utterly true..
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i wouldnt know about that, seeing as i’m european. you americans sure have big cars though
and good writers
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fantastic pic and quote! really though, how do you pick out one hunter s thompson quote? Oh and how about my halloween costume a few years back:
bad pic, but what the hell…
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NICE! That was my costume in 07 too!! Seriously, we rock. I’m going to try finding a pic of that, I know one’s around here somewhere.
And yeah, it’s impossible to pick a quote. In fact I was thinking about having an “enjoyable quote” series, and then separately, a Thompson quote series.
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