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44615a0
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Give in to your passions and they will lead you to the most preposterous conclusions--passions make a fool of reason.
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Christopher Moore |
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Of course there are gay Betas: the Beta Male boyfriend is highly prized in the gay community because you can teach him how to dress yet you can remain relatively certain that he will never develop a fashion sense or be more fabulous than you.)
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Christopher Moore |
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b2c7364
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Do not be afraid Everyone before you has died You cannot stay Any more than a baby can stay forever in the womb Leave behind all you know All you love Leave behind pain and suffering This is what Death is. --The Book of Living and Dying (The Tibetan Book of the Dead)
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Christopher Moore |
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313d017
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Tuck watched the sun bubble into the ocean. Columns of vertical cumulus clouds turned to cones of pink cotton candy, then as the sun became a red wafer on the horizon, they turned candy-apple red, with purple rays reaching out of them like searchlights. The water was neon over wet asphalt, blood-spattered gunmetal--colors from the cover of a detective novel where heroes drink hard and beauty is always treacherous.
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Christopher Moore |
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6c2f5e5
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No era tanto que las manecillas del tiempo se hubieran detenido alli, sino mas bien como si se hubieran levantado, exasperadas, y el reloj hubiera exclamado: "!Venga, cono! Yo me largo de aqui"."
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Christopher Moore |
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39b960b
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Most of us don't live our lives with one, integrated self that meets the world, we're a whole bunch of selves.
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Christopher Moore |
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c84b2c6
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Funny how the illusion of safety can make us careless.
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Christopher Moore |
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5bfb55b
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Mr. Asher, I'm going to have to ask you to leave." "No, ma'am, I'm going to have to insist that you pass away, this instant. You're overdue."
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Christopher Moore |
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5f801e2
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In the East they taught us that all suffering comes from desire, and that rough beast would stalk me through my life, but on that afternoon, and for a time after, I touched grace.
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Christopher Moore |
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a1072ee
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Joshua and I tried to engage Joy in conversation several times during the journey to Kabul, but she was cranky and abrupt and often just rode away from us. "Probably depressed that she's not torturing me," I speculated. "I can see how that might bring her down," said Joshua. "Maybe if you could get your camel to bite you. I know that always brightens my mood." I rode on ahead without another word. It's wildly irritating to have invented som..
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Christopher Moore |
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5cbf939
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Steady and righteous we may be, my friend, but without courage to risk ourselves for our brother, we are but politicians--blustering whores to rhetoric.
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Christopher Moore |
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I so adored her when she let her warrior queen armor fall, and came, silly and giggling, into my arms.
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Christopher Moore |
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1e712a5
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The two had been together since they were little girls, and so loved and hated each other like sisters.
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venice
sisters
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Christopher Moore |
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c891f92
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Does a broken heart know from a different location?
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Christopher Moore |
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05a2f73
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Snake eyes!" the croupier said. "Lizard dick!" Coyote shouted back. This sent me to convulsions."
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Christopher Moore |
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54f2295
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The night was crisp and the stars shone with a cold blue light like loneliness or infinity.
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Christopher Moore |
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163838a
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Joshua, my memory of Maggie isn't about what happened the night before we left. I didn't go to see her thinking that we would make love. A kiss was more than I expected. I think of Maggie because I made a place in my heart for her to live, and it's empty. It always will be. It always was. She loved you.
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Christopher Moore |
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5a5c0a1
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And that continued for quite a while until the adventurer admitted that it IS an accepted fact among monsters and giants of all stripes that Englishmen are delicious.
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humor
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Christopher Moore |
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56a290a
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You see, my plan is working. For it is written that 'if the wise man always appears stupid, his failures do not disappoint, and his success gives pleasant surprise.
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Christopher Moore |
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You have to reward them when they do what you want. I tried punishing them when they misbehaved, but the hammer seemed to crush their spirit.
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Christopher Moore |
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pursuit of material gain is ultimately empty when measured against eternity;
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Christopher Moore |
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2ae30b2
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I have followed my penis into hell and returned with the story.
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Christopher Moore |
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4f36604
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You're right [Joshua], I have taught you nothing. I could teach you nothing. Everything that you needed to know was already there. You simply needed the word for it. Some need Kali and Shiva to destroy the world so they may see past the illusion to divinity in them, others need Krishna to drive them to the place where they may perceive what is eternal in them. Others may perceive the Divine Spark in themselves only by realizing through enli..
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religion
humor
divine-spark
hinduism
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Christopher Moore |
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aa08147
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In the ancient world, blue was a breed of darkness.
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Christopher Moore |
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b0450e5
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From the slope of Haleakala, the Old Broad watched the activity in the channel with a two-hundred-power celestial telescope and a pair of "big eyes" binoculars that looked like stereo bazookas on precision mounts that were anchored into a ton of concrete."
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humor
whales
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Christopher Moore |
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3924a58
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IKEA," chanted the dead. "First we feast, then IKEA. First we feast, then IKEA."
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Christopher Moore |
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ec00e88
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The image of a well-dressed older woman making on a goopish spoonful of artificial boon spooge was running across the lobes of his brain like a stuttering nightmare.
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Christopher Moore |
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f8fe32f
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Back in the buffalo days, the Cheyenne prophet Sweet Medicine had seen a vision of men with hair on their faces who would come bringing a white sand that was poison to Indians. The prophecy had come true, the white sand was sugar, and Adeline blamed the white man for poisoning her right up to two hundred pounds.
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Christopher Moore |
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9629f7c
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A Bluesman hates to be told what to do. Authority rankles him, inspires his rebellion, and plays to his need to self-destruct. A Bluesman doesn't take to having a boss unless he's on a chain gang (for the chain gang boss ranks below only a mean old woman and a sweet young thing in the hierarchy of the Blues Muse, followed closely by bad liquor, a dead dog, and the Man).
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rebels
the-system
the-man
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Christopher Moore |
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1d18da9
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If you are going to learn, you need to forget what you know. - Pokey
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Christopher Moore |
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a60d68b
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This is a time in baseball when steroids have become a pretty big deal. On our team, you got Barry Bonds, who is hitting home runs like a mortar barrage, and whose head has grown to a size where when they make his promotional bobble-head, they just do the whole thing to scale, while across the bay in Oakland, Mark McGwire now has forearms like Popeye and will only speak in dialects of horse, and they're keeping Jose Canseco chained to a pos..
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Christopher Moore |
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7437636
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He smiled to himself. Through many centuries and many incarnations, he had learned one universal truth: bitches love them some cushions.
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Christopher Moore |
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689bd0b
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and in the middle of this lake is a big giant owl. Like five stories tall, which is large, in my book, for an owl.
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Christopher Moore |
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735fc31
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Oh, and a huge Federal Building that looked like it was being molested by a giant steel pterodactyl, but evidently that was just the government trying to get away from their standard bomb shelter architecture to something more aesthetically appealing, especially if you liked Godzilla porn.
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Christopher Moore |
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Now, I am the younger brother of an older brother who often measured the worth of a guy by his ability to not scream under pressure, and insisted, in fact, that if any screamlike sounds ever reached Ma and/or Pa, this younger brother, me, would receive a pasting such as I had never known, including severe and painful Indian burns to the bone -- a threat my older brother, Judges, may he rest in peace, backed up with great enthusiasm through ..
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manly-scream
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Christopher Moore |
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52cf5db
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Congratulations, you have been chosen to act as Death, it's a dirty job, but someone has to do it.
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Christopher Moore |
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55379de
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Apologies, one loses perspective after spending a week in a brothel.
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brothels
perspective
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Christopher Moore |
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8b30c21
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Raziel! Go forth into the land and lay waste unto two good-size Wal-Marts, slay until blood doth flow from all bargains and all the buildings are but rubble -- and pick up a few Snickers bars for yourself.
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Christopher Moore |
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Blue is beauty, not truth. "True blue" is a ruse, a rhyme; it's there, then it's not. Blue is a deeply sneaky color. Even deep blue is shallow. Blue is glory and power, a wave, a particle, a vibration, a resonance, a spirit, a passion, a memory, a vanity, a metaphor, a dream. Blue is a simile. Blue, she is like a woman."
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Christopher Moore |
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d870c40
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Maybe life is just easier if you're a little goofy...
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Christopher Moore |
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ccebe2f
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We can build cities for the Romans." "Actually, I was thinking about saving mankind." "Forget that nonsense, Josh. Rocks, I tell you."
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Christopher Moore |
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b5c4918
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An artist can't let madness stop him from making art, he simply has to channel it.
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Christopher Moore |
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1069e7a
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What are you working on?" Elizabeth asked. Nate could hear her tapping a pencil on her desk. She took notes during their conversations. He didn't know what she did with the notes, but it bothered him. "I have a lecture at the sanctuary in four days." Why, why had he told her? Why? Now she'd rattle down the mountain in her ancient Mercedes that looked like a Nazi staff car, sit in the audience, and ask all the questions that she knew in adva..
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whales
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Christopher Moore |
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edfd705
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I would paint more farms," said Toulouse-Lautrec, "but they always put them so far from the bar."
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Christopher Moore |