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1 " If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them. "
― Christopher Moore , Practical Demonkeeping (Pine Cove, #1)
2 " I've seen more intelligence in the crotch lice of harem whores. "
3 " By Aladdin's lamplit scrotum, man! Everything is a story. What is there but stories? Stories are the only truth. "
4 " In business, as in politics, the public is ever so tolerant of those who slime. "
5 " The prospect of change is a many-fanged beast, my dear. "
6 " Nothing evokes the prurient like puritanism. "
7 " I can be most colorful and inventive when I am angry. "
8 " May the IRS find that you deduct your pet sheep as an entertainment expense. "
9 " The netherworld is timeless and unchanging, and boring -- much like a doctor's waiting room. "
10 " Slowly and gently, Augustus Brine explained to the king of the Djinn about the illusion created by motion pictures. When he finished, he felt like he had just raped the tooth fairy in front of a class of kindergartners. "
11 " Everything is a story. What is there but stories? Stories are the only truth. "
12 " One day the good times had to keep on rolling, and all of life's horseshit would turn to circuses. "
13 " Rachel could not believe what she was hearing. Accepting that her magic worked was a huge step, yet she was speaking to the evidence. But to be offered the power to rule the world? She wasn't sure her career in exercise instruction had prepared her for this. "
14 " For the tourist, immersed in the oblivion of vacation spending, Cypress Street provided a bonanza of curious gifts to prove to the folks back home that they had been somewhere. Somewhere where they had obviously forgotten that soon they would return home to a mortgage, dental bills, and an American Express bill that would descend at the end of the month like a financial Angel of Death. And they bought. They bought effigies of "
15 " In Breeze’s business one got used to running across the skeletons in people’s closets. If Billy’s skeleton wore women’s underwear, it didn’t really matter. Homosexuality on Billy Winston was like acne on a leper. "
16 " Everyone at the bar turned toward The Breeze and waited, as if the next few words he spoke would reveal the true meaning of life, the winning numbers of the lottery, and the unlisted phone number of God. "
17 " To say that Effrom was not a particularly good cook was an understatement akin to saying that genocide is not a particularly effective public relations strategy. "
18 " Creatures of the night were rising from their resting places and venturing forth to feed on their unsuspecting victims. "
19 " He had tapped into the Zen of ignorance, the enlightenment of absurdity. "
20 " Die Behauptung, daß Effrom nicht besonders gut kochen konnte, war eine Untertreibung von ähnlichem Kaliber wie die Feststellung, daß es sich bei Völkermord um eine nicht besonders erfolgversprechende PR-Strategie handele. "