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In the City of Shy Hunters QUOTES

In the City of Shy Hunters QUOTES

1 " Have some fun while you wait for the will of heaven. "

― Tom Spanbauer , In the City of Shy Hunters

2 " That's when you stop being one way and start being another, Ruby said. Not something many people can do, or want to do. In fact, Ruby said, The only people who cross over, cross over because they're on some kind of Mission Impossible.
I could no longer live and stay the way I was, I said. "

― Tom Spanbauer , In the City of Shy Hunters

3 " Books are in the mind, Grandfather Alessandro said. Too many books and you forget your body is in the world. "

― Tom Spanbauer , In the City of Shy Hunters

4 " There is nothing more lonely than a true artist. "

― Tom Spanbauer , In the City of Shy Hunters

5 " Identity is your role in life, the part you play. Individuality is who you are, and who you are is revealed to you if you can get to complete presence. "

― Tom Spanbauer , In the City of Shy Hunters

6 " God made man because he loves to hear stories, Alessandro said. That's a good story, huh? "

― Tom Spanbauer , In the City of Shy Hunters

7 " Every time you hear a car alarm, Ruby said, another New Yorker has gone to hell. "

― Tom Spanbauer , In the City of Shy Hunters

8 " Life is absolutely, mysteriously beautiful. "

― Tom Spanbauer , In the City of Shy Hunters

9 " I was wounded by a blow of love. "

― Tom Spanbauer , In the City of Shy Hunters

10 " Drop-dead freshly fucked gorgeous. "

― Tom Spanbauer , In the City of Shy Hunters

11 " The only way out is in ... "

― Tom Spanbauer , In the City of Shy Hunters

12 " Maybe you've had skin next to your skin, but when was the last time you let yourself be touched? "

― Tom Spanbauer , In the City of Shy Hunters

13 " The fates lead her who will; who won't they drag. "

― Tom Spanbauer , In the City of Shy Hunters

14 " Things start where you don't know and end up where you know. When you know is when you ask, How did this start? "

― Tom Spanbauer , In the City of Shy Hunters

15 " You know, Rose said, You're not the first man in history who thinks his cock is the path to wisdom. You're not the first man to make his hard-on into the Holy Grail. "

― Tom Spanbauer , In the City of Shy Hunters

16 " So put your costume on, honey! Ruby said. Set Harlequin free! That party monster of yours is screaming to come out. Let the monster out! "

― Tom Spanbauer , In the City of Shy Hunters

17 " To admit ignorance is the highest knowledge. It is the necessary condition for all learning. "

― Tom Spanbauer , In the City of Shy Hunters

18 " Fuck hope and all the tiny little towns, one-horse towns, the one-stoplight towns, three-bars country-music jukebox-magic parquet-towns, pressure-cooker pot-roast frozen-peas bad-coffee married-heterosexual towns, crying-kids-in-the-Oldsmobile-beat-your-kid-in the-Thriftway-aisles towns, one-bank one-service-station Greyhound-Bus-stop-at-the-Pepsi-Cafe towns, two-television towns, Miracle Mile towns, Viv's Double Wide Beauty Salon towns, schizophrenic-mother towns, buy-yourself-a-handgun towns, sister-suicide towns, only-Injun's-a-dead-Injun towns, Catholic-Protestant-Mormon-Baptist religious-right five-churches Republican-trickle-down-to-poverty family-values sexual-abuse pro-life creation-theory NRA towns, nervous-mother rodeo-clown-father those little-town-blues towns. "

― Tom Spanbauer , In the City of Shy Hunters

19 " You're going this way and then shit happens and then you're going that way. "

― Tom Spanbauer , In the City of Shy Hunters

20 " The key to being a warrior is not to be afraid of who you are. "

― Tom Spanbauer , In the City of Shy Hunters