Christopher Moore Quotes - Page 2

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• Canada is a myth people made up to entertain children, like the Tooth Fairy. There’s no such place.

  Christopher Moore

  Children, People, Teeth

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

  Christopher Moore

  Thinking

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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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• Love: the sickest of Irony’s sick jokes. The place where logic and order go to die.

  Christopher Moore

  Order, Sick, Irony

  Christopher Moore (2009). “Coyote Blue: A Novel”, p.158, 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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• Not unlike the toaster, I control darkness.

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  Badass, Darkness, Toasters

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• I was seven before I realized that you could eat breakfast with your pants on.

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  Breakfast, Pants, Seven

  Christopher Moore (2009). “Fool: A Novel”, p.30, Harper Collins

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• That's a horrible plan." "Yes, but I have chosen to ignore that.

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  Horrible, Plans, Chosen

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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?

  Christopher Moore

  Baby, Blood, Names

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

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• The pursuit of material gain is ultimately empty when measured against eternity.

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  Gains, Eternity, Empty

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• What is your name?" asked Lear. Caius," said Kent. And whence do you hail?" From Bonking, sire." Well, yes, lad, as do we all," said Lear, "but from what town?

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  Names, Towns, Hail

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• Don't be ridiculous, Charlie, people love the parents who beat their kids in department stores. It's the ones who just let their kids wreak havoc that everybody hates.

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  Hate, Kids, People

  "A Dirty Job". Book by Christopher Moore, 2006.

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• The fact that 'A Dirty Job' has comedy and supernatural horror in it, that both are woven in and out of it with a whimsical tone, despite the fact that it's about death, makes it hard to characterize with standard genre labels - but I have no problem with that. I'd call it a funny story about death, and leave it at that.

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  Jobs, Dirty, Woven

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• Life is loneliness, broken only by the gods taunting us with friendship and the odd bonk

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  Loneliness, Broken, Life Is

  Christopher Moore (2010). “Fool”, p.32, Hachette UK

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• She's evil. Evil, evil, evil. I want to see her naked.

  Christopher Moore

  Evil, Naked, Want

  Christopher Moore (2009). “Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• Do we still have to floss?" Tommy asked. "I mean, what's the point of being immortal if we have to floss?

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  Mean, Immortal, Stills

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• And I'll have you know that if you hurt my son again, if he so much as sighs sadly over his coffee, I will hire a man, a Russian, probably, to hunt you down and rip all that shiny black hair from your head, then break your skinny arms and legs, and set you on fire, and then put you out with a hammer. And should there be children from your beastly rutting, I shall have the Russian man cut them to tiny pieces and feed them to Madame Jacob's dog. because, although he may be only a worthless, simpleminded, libertine artist, Lucien is my favorite, and I will not have him hurt. Do you understand?

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  Dog, Hurt, Children

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• Everyone is happier if they have someone else to look down on, as well as someone to look up to, especially if they resent both.

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  Looks, Look Up, Wells

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• ... but to remain historically accurate, I would have had to leave out an important question that I felt needed to be addressed, which is, 'What if Jesus had known kung fu?

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  Jesus, What If, Important

  Christopher Moore (2009). “Lamb: A Novel”, p.388, Hachette UK

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• A woman’s magazine quiz: Question: You decide to do the dread deed and just as things are starting to get hot he comes, rolls over, and asks, “Was it good for you?” You: a. Say, “God, yes! That was the best seventeen seconds of my life” b. Say, “Sure, as good as it gets for me with a man.” c. Put a Certs in your navel and say, “That’s for you, Mr. Bunnyman. You can have it on your way back up, after the job is finished

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  Jobs, Men, Good As It Gets

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• Regardless of its purpose, the humpback-whale song is the most complex piece of nonhuman composition on earth. Whether it's art, prayer, or booty call, the humpback song is an amazing thing to experience firsthand, and I suspect that even once the science of it is put to bed, it will remain, as long as they sing, magic.

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  Song, Art, Prayer

  "Fluke, or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings". Book by Christopher Moore, June 3, 2003.

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• Like looking down on a lubricious chess set, isn't it? The king moves in tiny steps, with no direction, like a drunkard trying to avoid the archer's bolt. The others work their strategies and wait for the old man to fall. He has no power, yet all power moves in his orbit and to his mad whim. Do you know there's no fool piece on the chessboard, Kent?" "Methinks the fool is the player, the mind above the moves.

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  Kings, Moving, Fall

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• We know there's going to be nothing but pain, but we go back again and again.

  Christopher Moore

  Pain, Back Again, Again And Again

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• There's a fine edge to new grief, it severs nerves, disconnects reality--there's mercy in a sharp blade. Only with time, as the edge wears, does the real ache begin.

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  Real, Grief, Sorrow

  Christopher Moore (2009). “A Dirty Job: A Novel”, p.10, Harper Collins

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