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Children see magic because they look for it.

Christopher Moore

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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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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Only by being prepared for your death can you ever truly live.

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Prepared

Christopher Moore (2009). “A Dirty Job: A Novel”, p.229, Hachette UK

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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.

Christopher Moore

Love Is, Thinking, Taught

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

Christopher Moore

Imagination

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Boredom can be a lethal thing on a small island.

Christopher Moore

Crazy, Blessing, Islands

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Routine feeds the illusion of safety.

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Safety, Routine, Illusion

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Not unlike the toaster, I control darkness.

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Badass, Darkness, Toasters

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

Christopher Moore

Long, Scary, Let It Go

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

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

Christopher Moore

World, Sometimes, Lows

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

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

Christopher Moore

Past, Guilt

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The value of the work we do is the value we give to it.

Christopher Moore

Giving, Values

“ Movies The fine art of copying a canvas 'The Thomas Crown Affair': Stealing from the masters” by Jamie Allen, www.cnn.com. August 19, 1999.

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Like most Beta Males, he didn't realize that being a good guy was not necessarily an attraction to women.

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Guy, Males, Realizing

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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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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.

Christopher Moore

Lying, Cat, Dark

Christopher Moore (2009). “A Dirty Job: A Novel”, p.228, 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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Love needs room to grow. Like a rose. Or a tumor.

Christopher Moore

Rose, Needs, Rooms

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Blessed are the dumbfucks.

Christopher Moore

Blessed

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

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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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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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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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