"right' i said. 'but first, we need..." - Quote by Hunter S Thompson
right' i said. 'but first, we need the car. and after that, the cocaine. and then the tape recorder, for special music, and some acapulco shirts.
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“Like most of the others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser.”
“In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone.”
“Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times.”
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“I love watching keep-fit videos while munching chocolate chip cookies.”
“Our clothing, our food, our household furnishings - all could be much simpler than they now are and at the same time be better looking”
“These French-style caramels are handmade in California. It's always hard to give them away!”
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“In my neighborhood - West 121st Street in New York, "white Harlem" - there were only two drugs: smack and marijuana. By the time I was 13, some friends and I were using marijuana fairly regularly. The Reefer Madness myth was still very strong then, but I'd been into jazz and those lyrics included so many casual references to pot that it was completely demystified for me.”
“There is nothing worse than a man in the throws of an ether bender.”
“I did LSD and peyote in the late Sixties, before I got into cocaine. That was concurrent with my change from a straight comic to the album and counterculture period, and those drugs served their purpose. They helped open me up.”