Christopher Moore Quotes - Page 5

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• He always had a problem with the purity of others. Never his own.

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  Problem, Purity

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• Words, words, words, a million million words circle in my head like hawks, waiting to dive onto the page to rend and tear the only two words I want to write. Why me?

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  Writing, Circles, Two

  Christopher Moore (2009). “Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• When I teach seminars, I tell people, Your stuff has to look like something thats out there, because otherwise nobody will take a chance on you.

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  People, Looks, Stuff

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• She was an alien, really - a sort of eating, pooping, tantrum machine - and he didn't understand anything about her species.

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  Machines, Tantrums, Aliens

  Christopher Moore (2009). “A Dirty Job: A Novel”, p.36, Harper Collins

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• People, generally, suck.

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  People

  Christopher Moore (2009). “The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror”, p.166, Hachette UK

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• As much as I encourage communication with my readers, I don't want reviews from them, simply because I don't need to be hamstrung in the middle of working on something.

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  Communication, Needs, Want

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• She's so small, yet she contains so much evil.

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  Evil

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• You sure about this writer thing son?

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  Son

  Christopher Moore (2009). “Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• You don't hurry a thinker, and you don't talk to him when he's thinking. It's just inconsiderate.

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  Thinking, Inconsiderate, Thinker

  Christopher Moore (2009). “Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings”, p.40, Harper Collins

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• Do we look like thrill-seekers? Wasn't it enough that we had to put up that sign reading NO HABLA ESPANOL and acknowledge the existence of thirty percent of the population, even in the negative?

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  Reading, Negative, Population

  Christopher Moore (2009). “The Lust Lizard Of Melancholy Cove: Book 2: Pine Cove Series”, p.244, Hachette UK

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• Not unlike the toaster, I control darkness.

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  Badass, Darkness, Toasters

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• People always stay the age that they died at. My big brother died of leukemia when I was six. He was eight. Now when I think of him, he's always eight, and he's still my big brother. He never changes, and the part of me that remembers him never changes.

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  Brother, Thinking, Eight

  Christopher Moore (2009). “Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

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• She hugged me and I could feel the heat rise in my face, either from shame or love, like there was a difference.

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  Differences, Faces, Heat

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• I could stand on my head and flick the bean right there at the dinner table and my mom would be all, "Honey, Christmas is family time, we should be together" and make me finish in front of everyone.

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  Mom, Together, Would Be

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• Perhaps there is a reason that there is no fool piece on the chessboard. What action, a fool? What strategy, a fool? What use, a fool? Ah, but a fool resides in a deck of cards, a joker, sometimes two. Of no worth, of course. No real purpose. The appearance of a trump, but none of the power: Simply an instrument of chance. Only a dealer may give value to the joker.

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  Real, Two, Giving

  Christopher Moore (2010). “Fool”, p.64, Hachette UK

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• Action based on hope just felt better than the paralysis of certainty.

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  Action, Certainty, Paralysis

  Christopher Moore (2009). “Coyote Blue: A Novel”, p.260, Simon and Schuster

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• Pondering is a little like considering and a little like thinking, but looser. To ponder, one must let the facts roll around the rim of the mind's roulette wheel, coming to settle in whichever slot they feed pulled to.

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  Thinking, Mind, Roulette

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• Oh, I get it," I said. "It's a parable. Cute. Let's go eat.

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  Cute, Parables, Said

  Christopher Moore (2009). “Lamb: A Novel”, p.364, Hachette UK

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• Blessed are the meek, for to them we shall say "attaboy".

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  Blessed, Meek

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

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• I wanted a trumpet concerto that reflected Native American music because, well, there aren't any. I looked around for one but couldn't find anything. So it's a wide-open field.

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  Native American, Reflection, Fields

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• [in reference to turkey bowling] He [Tommy] squinted and picked his target, then took his steps and sent the bird sliding down the aisle. A collective gasp rose from the crew as the fourteen-pound, self-basting, fresh-frozen projectile of wholesome savory goodness plowed into the soap bottles like a freight train into a chorus line of drunken grandmothers.

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  Grandmother, Self, Turkeys

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• Sarcasm will make your tits fall off.

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  Fall, Sarcasm

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• Even a mentally challenged shark would figure out that sea turtles did not wear boxer shorts printed in flying piggies, and no sea turtle would be yattering streams of obscenities between chain-smoker gasps of breath.

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  Turtles, Sharks, Sea

  Christopher Moore (2009). “Island Of The Sequined Love Nun: A Novel”, p.173, Hachette UK

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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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  Sex, Hands, Survivor

  Christopher Moore (2009). “You Suck: A Love Story”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• He invented Kung Fu when translated to English means method by which short, bald guys can kick the bejeezus out of you.

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  Mean, Guy, Kung Fu

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