Christopher Moore
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Quotes by Christopher Moore
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Andrew Lloyd Webber's version of the Kool-Aid jingle is at once chilling and evocative. Donny Osmond is brilliant as James Jones.
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Why write a song when no one can play the notes or understand the lyrics?
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Children see magic because they look for it.
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I'm feeling full of tiny princes, bustling to get out into the world and start plotting against one another.
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...as if someone had thrown a hand grenade into the middle of a teddy bear orgy and the only survivors had had their fur blown off.
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So I am death Charlie said then turned to his daughter while buttering his toast.This is death toast sweety.
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What love is not torment when a man knows not how to love himself? Talk not of drowning, but attaining your heart's desire by action: Put money in thy purse.
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I tried cutting myself to express my heartbreak over Tommy (Lord Flood) rejecting me, but OMFG it hurts like flaming fuck.
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Does the work get easier once you know what you are doing?Your lungs grow thick with stone dust and your eyes bleary from the sun and fragments thrown up by the chisel. You pour your lifeblood out into works of stone for Romans who will take your money in taxes to feed soldiers who will nail your people to crosses for wanting to be free. Your back breaks, your bones creak, your wife screeches at you, and your children torment you with open begging mouths, like greedy baby birds in the nest. You go to bed every night so tired and beaten that you pray to the Lord to send the angel of death to take you in your sleep so you don't have to face another morning. It also has its downside.
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I like a girl with a substantial bottom,' said Renoir, drawing in the air the size bottom he preferred.
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Of course they won't bloody remember, they'll be dead.' Then she called him a name in a dead language that translated, roughly, to 'poop on a stick,' but sounded more succinct, like this: 'Of course they won't bloody remember, they'll be dead, Poopstick.
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Whistler,' Manet called. 'How's your mother?
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The Painting is not shit,' said Lucien.'I know,' said Henri. 'That was just part of the subterfuge. I am of royal lineage; subterfuge is one of the many talents we carry in our blood, along with guile and hemophilia.
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Don't be so hard on yourself, You're doing the same thing, trying to reconcile all the moms that Mom ever was - The one you wanted, the one she was when you needed her and she was there, the one she was when she didn't understand. Most of us don't live our lives with one, integrated self that meets the world, we're a whole bunch of selves. When someone dies, they all integrate into the soul - the essence of who we are, beyond the different faces we wear throughout our lives. You're just hating the selves you've always hated, and loving the ones you've always loved. It's bound to mess you up.
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Nobody's perfect. Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him....
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The prospect of change is a many-fanged beast, my dear.
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In business, as in politics, the public is ever so tolerant of those who slime.
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...and thus he found his single source of joy in the society of other people: frightening the girls with his penis.
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Blessed are the meek, for to them we shall say attaboy.
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Which isn't, like, as bad as it sounds, because the general public kind of sucks ass.
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