im kind of in the mood to go back and search for all the things that i wished i highlighted while reading
what are your favorite things that are said in these books?
there are just so many great quotes
what are your favorite things that are said in these books?
there are just so many great quotes
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Sat, January 24, 2004 - 5:18 PMHere are a couple I like from Even Cowgirls Get the Blues:
Sissy Hankshaw's Great Secret:
One has not only an ability to perceive the world but an ability to alter his perception of it; or, more simply, one can change things by the manner in which one looks at them.
"Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it." - Bonanza Jellybean
"Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need." -
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Thu, January 29, 2004 - 7:59 PM"When I was a child, I was an imaginary playmate." i dont remember who said it or in what book, but it's great! -
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Sat, March 27, 2004 - 10:19 AMI'm pretty sure that's from Cowgirls -- from the session with the Psychiatrist (Dr. Goldman??) There's a build-up to it, as if it were difficult to admit. -
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Sun, March 28, 2004 - 7:05 PMha! yeah, i think you're right... i just started to read cowgirls for the second time. we'll soon see. -
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Fri, April 9, 2004 - 12:03 AMI've always loved the end of Still Life. "It's never to late to have a happy childhood."
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Tue, April 13, 2004 - 10:35 AMyeah no kidding...........i've learned that the best way to read a TR book is with a highlighter in hand.......it's so funny....i buy my books new...so they are all crisp and clean......but by the time i am finished, the pages are dog-eared......words are underlined, highlighted, asterixed...etc....hehe....
i have to say though, one of my favorite passages by TR is the Woodpecker's "infamous response" to being called a 'victim.'.....he goes into full detail about the sights, sounds, smells, and taste of a good explosion. then goes into what it means to be an outlaw. ahhhhh......it's soooooo great!!! -
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Tue, April 13, 2004 - 10:48 AMWhen she was a small girl, Amanda hid a ticking clock in an old, rotten tree trunk. It drove woodpeckers crazy. Ignoring tasty bugs all around them, they just about beat their brains out trying to get at the clock. Years later, Amanda used the woodpecker experiment as a model for understanding capitalism, Communism, Christianity, and all other systems that traffic in future rewards rather than in present realities.
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Tue, April 13, 2004 - 4:23 PMI wish I could remember which book it's in that love walks out the door, around the corner, and has a gin and tonic. It's the same book where someone says love isn't chicken soup...
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Wed, April 14, 2004 - 4:03 PMyes as a matter of fact it was (i just got through reading agine for the second time) -
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Wed, April 14, 2004 - 4:08 PMi am a redhead that's i why i think i like still life so much. 12 famous reheads lucille ball, gen geoge custer,lizzie borden, thomas jefferson, red skelton, george benard shaw, judas iscariot. p.44 of still life with a woodpecker. -
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Thu, April 15, 2004 - 10:08 AMYeah, well. There is something I love about that scene on the boat where Leigh-Cherry pulls out a pubic hair to prove she's really a redhead. I've always wanted to startle someone like that... -
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Fri, April 16, 2004 - 6:33 AMshe was saying yes the rug does match the curtins. -
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Sun, May 16, 2004 - 11:01 PM"Some folks hide, and some folks seek, and seeking, when it's mindless, neurotic, desperate, or pusillanimous can be a form of hiding. But there are folks who want to know and aren't afraid to look and won't turn tail should they find it and if they never do, they'll have a good time anyway because nothing, neither terrible truth nor the absence of it, is going to cheat them out of one honest breath of earth's sweet gas." -
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Mon, May 17, 2004 - 12:49 AMReligion is an improper response to the Divine.
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Tue, May 18, 2004 - 1:02 AMAnd upon re-reading Jitterbug...
The teardrop had vanished, whether absorbed by resin, evaporated by candle heat, or welcomed into some mystery dimension, we cannot determine. No reward was ever offered for its return. -
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Fri, May 28, 2004 - 9:27 AMjust finished villa incognito .... here are some of my favorites....
You disrupted the predictable pattern of my life, and although uncertainties and changes can be quite uncomfortable, a life is only a paper puppet show without them
It is what is it, you are what you it, and there are no mistakes
Ink is the blood of language; paper is its flesh.
(about Stubblefield) …brain was a rodeo champion and his tongue a bucking bronco
...every individual has to assume responsibility for his or her own
actions, even the poor and the young. A social system decrees otherwise
is inviting intellectual atrophy and spiritual stagnation.
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Tue, September 5, 2006 - 1:28 PMI'm doing this from swiss-cheese memory, so it may have a hole or two in it:
"Gestalt, schmestalt," growled Dr Robbins. "What I'm speaking of is magic!"
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Mon, June 7, 2004 - 4:31 PMMy favorite bit, and you will have to forgive me, I'm at work and will not be able to quote it exactly, was from Still life with Woodpecker. He describes how to make love stay. The 3rd way, was announce to love that the world is on fire, stand go to window open it, pee out, then go back to bed and tell love everything will be fine, love will be there in the morning.
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Tue, June 8, 2004 - 5:48 PMI just finished reading Woodpecker again. Those "how to make love stay" quotes are some of my favorites.
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Thu, June 9, 2005 - 10:06 PMAs I'm rereading Fierce Invalids now, I have only these quotations to share at the moment. Delicious like moon frosting ;0)
"She was strange, but she wasn't inexplicable... there's an explanation for her exodus. We just aren't privy to it. Ignorance of the facts is no more synonymous with inexplicability than technical chastity is synonymous with purity" ~ Switters // p.323
"Because they in life possessed the wisdom of physical nonattachment, nomads enjoyed an unusually smooth transition into death and make the world's most contented ghosts" _280_
"After a period of rather stunned silence, the men all began to clamor at the same time. Speaking Arabic now, one asked what kind of man would live in a nest of unclean women, another demanded to know what a foreigner was doing speaking in the tongue of great Allah, and the third inquired if Switters was prepared for death. / To the first question, he replied 'A lucky man'; to the second, 'it's as stupidly ethnocentric to think God's language is Arabic as it is to believe Jesus spoke King James English'; and to the last, 'Everybody on earth, unfortunately, is prepared for death, but very damn few are prepared for life.'" ~ 282
why the quotations about death??
"My faith is whatever makes me feel good about being alive. If your religion doesn't make you feel good to be alive, what the hell is the point of it?" _247_
(and somewhere, playing Tarzan on the vines of mister robbins words, was a brilliant arc over the "full consciousness" of religion - claiming that Sufism is the only sect of Islam that got it right. My dear, how high you can fly on this man's rope swings!!) -
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Thu, June 16, 2005 - 2:18 PMMy favorite - or one of them - from FI is "Did you know there's no such thing as a smithereen? It only exists in the plural". Love that.
The extacy-induced Ode to the Pumpkin is good for some belly laughs too.
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Tue, September 13, 2005 - 10:20 PM"It is what it is. I am what I it. There are no mistakes."
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Sun, February 27, 2005 - 8:52 PM"Why, with all our bombs and churches, are we still afraid?"
-m. marv.
Until we build our first steepled Protestant missle silo, compadre... -
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Tue, March 1, 2005 - 9:02 AMYES YES YES!!!! This is making me want to pick up all of them again and go through with a highlighter! -
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Thu, March 10, 2005 - 12:50 PM>This is making me want to pick up all of them again and go through with a highlighter!
I've actually done that. How sad is that?
Tried it on Skinny Legs and All, but I spent more time hilighting than reading, so I gave up halfway through.
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Mon, August 7, 2006 - 2:26 PMI LOVED skinny legs and all.
I have envisioned my version of the dance of the 7 veils at least a million times. One day, I'll try it.
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Mon, August 7, 2006 - 2:03 PMI've always enjoyed this paragraph from Tom's liner notes on the Leonard Cohen tribute CD, "Tower of Song:"
There is evidence that the honoree might be privy to the secret of the universe, which, in case you´re wondering, is simply this: everything is connected. Everything. Many, if not most, of the links are difficult to determine. The instrument, the apparatus, the focused ray that can uncover and illuminate those connections is language. And just as a sudden infatuation often will light up a person´s biochemical atmosphere more pyrotechnically than any deep, abiding attachment, so an unlikely, unexpected burst of linguistic imagination will usually reveal greater truths than the most exacting scholarship. In fact. The poetic image may be the only device remotely capable of dissecting romantic passion, let alone disclosing the inherent mystical qualities of the material world.
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Sat, August 12, 2006 - 7:48 PM"The more advertising I see, the less I want to buy." - Switters in Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates -
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Fri, September 1, 2006 - 4:27 PMfrom Jitterbug Perfume
"The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being.
The difference between love and logic is that in the eyes of a lover, a toad can be a prince, whereas in the analysis of a logistician, the lover would have to PROVE that the toad was a prince, an enterprise destined to dull the shine of many a passion."
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Mon, September 4, 2006 - 8:11 PMHey folks! Big thanks to Trish for turning me onto Robbins. He's very quotable but I'm particularly enamored with how he carpet bombs you with the most exotic...vivid....images.
"...the nipples that in his mind evoked the candy-coated lug nuts on Cupids pink Corvette."
--Fierce invalids
I also like that part in Cowgirls where he's describing Sissy's father's whiskey soaked voice, the voice that sounds like it's "been strained through Daniel Boone's underwear"
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Wed, September 27, 2006 - 8:00 PMFrom "Still Life with Woodpecker" -
"There are two kinds of people. Those who see the frost on the pumpkin, and those who see the drool on the pie." -
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Mon, October 2, 2006 - 7:54 PM"Somewhere below the window, cicadas were holding a political rally, Morse-coding their single slogan---Live and Let Live!---over and over to the four indifferent directions"
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Wed, October 4, 2006 - 11:47 AMwith TR, i feel like you could just flip to a page and pull out a good quote. here, i'll prove it.
from Another Roadside Attraction:
"Not likely," Said Amanda, pointing out to the writer that the flea has been called "the sexual marvel of the animal kingdom." Tiny he may be, but his libido is larger than a whale's. Proportionately speaking , so is his genital equipment. Among fleas, copulation is frequent and long in duration; an average of three hours per set and up to nine hours if their passions are aroused. "Our small friends will suffer no lack of entertainment on their journey," vowed Amanda
Bon voyage, you little fuckers.
