Songs of the Doomed Quotes

“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, 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, 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, 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, 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, Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream

“Animals don't hire lawyers”
― Hunter S. Thompson, 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, 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, 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, Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream

“I’m a word freak. I like words. I’ve always compared writing to music. That’s the way I feel about good paragraphs. When it really works”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream

“I felt I could go anywhere and do anything”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream