# Quote — Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

> What were we doing out here...? What was the meaning of this trip? Did I actually have a big red convertible out there on the street? Was I just roaming around these Mint Hotel escalators in a drug frenzy of some kind, or had I really come out here to Las Vegas to work on a story?

- Author: [Hunter S. Thompson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hunter-s-thompson.md)
- Book: [Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hunter-s-thompson/fear-and-loathing-in-las-vegas.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fear_and_Loathing_in_Las_Vegas_(novel)#7._Paranoid_Terror...and_the_Awful_Specter_of_Sodomy...A_flashing_of_Knives_and_Green_Water) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/hunter-s-thompson/fear-and-loathing-in-las-vegas/what-were-we-doing

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