Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces.
Hunter S. ThompsonRead
A cap of good acid costs $5, and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony, with God singing solo and the Holy Ghost on drums.
Interpretation
What this quote means
This quote highlights the profound experiences that can be accessed through altered states of consciousness, often at a low cost.
Hunter S. Thompson uses this vivid imagery to suggest that powerful, transcendent experiences can be achieved inexpensively through the use of certain substances. The 'Universal Symphony' metaphorically represents a deeper understanding of existence and spirituality, while personifying God and the Holy Ghost adds a layer of religious experience, emphasizing how such moments can feel divine and enlightening.
Themes
AcidExperienceSpiritualityCostMusic
In practice
Example use cases
A speaker at a festival might use this quote to provoke thought about consciousness and experiences.
More from Hunter S. Thompson
All quotes βAs things stand now, I am going to be a writer. I'm not sure that I'm going to be a good one or even a self-supporting one, but until the dark thumb of fate presses me to the dust and says 'you are nothing', I will be a writer.
Hunter S. ThompsonRead
Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can't reach.
Hunter S. ThompsonRead
There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge.
Hunter S. ThompsonRead
Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.
Hunter S. ThompsonRead
When you write for a living and you can't do anything else, you know that sooner or later that the deadline is going to come screaming down on you like a goddamn banshee. There's no avoiding it...So one day you just don't appear at the El Adobe bar anymore; you shut the door, paint the windows black, rent an electric typewriter and become the monster you always were - the writer.
Hunter S. ThompsonRead
Similar quotes
I am alone here in my own mind. There is no map and there is no road. It is one of a kind just as yours is.
Anne SextonRead
Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire.
C. S. LewisRead
For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find.
James A. MichenerRead
Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.
Ramana MaharshiRead
Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate; debt, which consumes so much time, which so cripples and disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem so base, is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone, and is needed most by those who suffer from it most.
Ralph Waldo EmersonRead
The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is being attacked, and every man will be glad of these conscience-soothing falsities
Mark TwainRead