Christopher Moore Quotes

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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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• 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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• 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.

  Christopher Moore

  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.

  Christopher Moore

  Love Is, Thinking, Taught

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

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  Crazy, Blessing, Islands

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• Routine feeds the illusion of safety.

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  Safety, Routine, Illusion

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

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  Rose, Needs, Rooms

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• An adventure story is fear recalled in comfort.

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  Adventure, Comfort, Stories

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Compliment but do not covet.

  Christopher Moore

  Compliment

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

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  Thinking

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