Quotes from Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream

“These are bad times for people who like to sit outside the library at dawn on a rainy morning and get ripped to the tits on crank and powerful music.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, quote from Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream

“I remember being stunned at the New York skyline as I drove over this big freeway, coming across the flats in Seacaucus. All of a sudden it was looming up in front of me and I almost lost control of the car. I thought it was a vision.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, quote from Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream

“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...”
― Hunter S. Thompson, quote from Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream

“I was thinking; my mind was running at top speed, scanning and sorting my options. They ranged all the way from Dumb and Dangerous to Crazy, Evil, and utterly wrong from the start.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, quote from Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream

“Don’t say that,” I snapped. “We are innocent men! We are working within the system . . . and besides, I think I have some good crank outside in the car.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, quote from Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream

“We are going to Court, Andrew. We are champions! We will crush them like cheap roaches! TODAY’S PIG IS TOMORROW’S BACON!”
― Hunter S. Thompson, quote from Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream

“Once I broke him out of jail, as it were, I would be responsible for him until my lawyers took over.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, quote from Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream

“He definitely had a feel for words, almost like an idiot-savant.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, quote from Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream

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