Random book quotations
"We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mascaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half-full of cocaine and a galaxy of multicolored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls... But the only thing that worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge..."
excerpt, Hunter S. Thompson "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"
"As I got into the backseat, Dad turned around and said, 'That sweater's faggy.'
'It's his color, Bev,' Mom said. 'It's YOUR color, too. You're both autumns.' Then she gunned the car out of the driveway. It seemed ludicrous to me that Dad would weigh in on my outfit, since he was colorblind.
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Jesse Fowler was the gay Rosa Parks of Lexington, Virginia. In a way, he one-upped her. He got the bus driver fired... Three circles and a snap he said... When I went home, I stood in front of my mirror. I snapped and snapped and snapped."
excerpts, "How I Learned to Snap" by Kirk Read
excerpt, Hunter S. Thompson "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"
"As I got into the backseat, Dad turned around and said, 'That sweater's faggy.'
'It's his color, Bev,' Mom said. 'It's YOUR color, too. You're both autumns.' Then she gunned the car out of the driveway. It seemed ludicrous to me that Dad would weigh in on my outfit, since he was colorblind.
...
Jesse Fowler was the gay Rosa Parks of Lexington, Virginia. In a way, he one-upped her. He got the bus driver fired... Three circles and a snap he said... When I went home, I stood in front of my mirror. I snapped and snapped and snapped."
excerpts, "How I Learned to Snap" by Kirk Read