Christopher Moore Quotes

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Children see magic because they look for it.

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Life, Children, Imagination Creativity

Christopher Moore (2009). “Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal”, p.10, Harper Collins

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Routine feeds the illusion of safety.

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Safety, Routine, Illusion

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If you think anyone is sane you just don’t know enough about them. The key — and this is very relevant in our case — is to find someone whose insanity dovetails with your own.

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Thinking, Keys, Insanity

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He loved constantly, instantly, spontaneously, without thought or words. That's what he taught me. Love is not something you think about, it is a state in which you dwell. That was his gift.

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Love Is, Thinking, Taught

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Sometimes this high-tech world calls for low-tech solutions.

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World, Sometimes, Lows

Christopher Moore (2009). “Island of the Sequined Love Nun”, p.38, Harper Collins

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Faith isn't an act of intelligence, it's an act of imagination.

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Imagination

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It's wildly irritating to have invented something as revolutionary as sarcasm, only to have it abused by amateurs.

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Sarcasm, Revolutionary, Irritating

Christopher Moore (2009). “Lamb: A Novel”, p.148, Hachette UK

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Nobody's perfect... Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him.

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Perfect, Guy, Nobody's Perfect

"Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal". Book by Christopher Moore, 2002.

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Compliment but do not covet.

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Compliment

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Unless you can change the past, you’re wasting the present on this guilt

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Past, Guilt

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Why understand when you can believe?

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Believe

Christopher Moore (2009). “Coyote Blue: A Novel”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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He was a writer and words were his weapons.

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Weapons

Christopher Moore (2009). “Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story”, p.184, Simon and Schuster

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One of them hissed-not the hiss of a cat, a long, steady tone-more like the hiss of air escaping the rubber raft that is all that lies between you and a dark sea full of sharks, the hiss of your life leaking out at the seams.

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Lying, Cat, Dark

Christopher Moore (2009). “A Dirty Job: A Novel”, p.228, Hachette UK

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Little-boy love...the cleanest pain I've ever known. Love without desire, conditions, or limits - a pure and radiant glow in the heart that could make me giddy and sad and glorious all at once. Where does it go? Why, in all their experiments, did the Magi never try to capture that purity in a bottle? Perhaps they couldn't.

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Pain, Heart, Boys

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Love needs room to grow. Like a rose. Or a tumor.

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Rose, Needs, Rooms

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If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them.

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Thinking, Insanity, Enough

Christopher Moore (2009). “The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror”, p.91, Hachette UK

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Turtles hate heights. They don't even like being a few feet off the ground. It's the main reason they have resisted evolution for so long-fear of heights. Turtle thinking goes thus: Sure, first our scales turn into feathers and the next thing you know we're flying and chirping and perching on trees. We've seen it happen. Thanks, but we're staying right here in the mud where we belong. You're not going to see us flying full-tilt boogie into a sliding glass door.

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Hate, Thinking, Doors

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An adventure story is fear recalled in comfort.

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Adventure, Comfort, Stories

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Blessed are the dumbfucks.

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Blessed

"Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal". Book by Christopher Moore, 2002.

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I think I'm what they call a never-was.

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Thinking

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That's the scary thing about hope," she said. "If you let it go too long it turns into faith.

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Long, Scary, Let It Go

Christopher Moore (2009). “Coyote Blue: A Novel”, p.235, Simon and Schuster

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You think you know how this story is going to end, but you don't.

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Thinking, Stories, Ends

Christopher Moore (2009). “Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal”, p.13, Harper Collins

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Oh, we are but soft and squishy bags of mortality rolling in a bin of sharp circumstance, leaking life until we collapse, flaccid, into our own despair.

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Despair, Rolling, Bags

Christopher Moore (2010). “Fool”, p.105, Hachette UK

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They want to be tied up, I tie them up. They want to be spanked, I spank them. They want to be called names, I call them names. But try and drink a little of their blood, and they scream like babies. What about my needs?

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Baby, Blood, Names

Christopher Moore (2009). “Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

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I think there was always some scrawny dreamer sitting at the edge of the firelight, who had the ability to imagine dangers, to look into the future in his imagination and see possibilities, and therefore survived to pass his genes on to the next generation.

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Thinking, Imagination, Dreamer

Christopher Moore (2009). “The Lust Lizard Of Melancholy Cove: Book 2: Pine Cove Series”, p.186, Hachette UK

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