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Jitterbug Perfume (1984)
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... overdramatizing the word of God, turning the Scriptures into a cross between a German opera and a hockey game.
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It couldn't have been Pan's output alone because Alobar's testicles were as flat and juiceless as trampled grapes.
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The only bubble in the flat champagne of February is Valentine's Day. It was no accident that our ancestors pinned Valentine's Day on February's shirt: he or she lucky enough to have a lover in frigid, antsy February has cause for celebration, indeed.
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She continued weeping until the heat of her tear water, the sheer velocity of its flow, finally obscured the already vague circumstances of its origins.
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I cannot believe that the most delicious things were placed here merely to test us, to temp us, to make it the more difficult for us to capture the grand prize: the safety of the void. To fashion of life such a petty game is unworthy of both men and gods.
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Zippers are primal and modern at the very same time. On the one hand, your zipper is primitive and reptilian, on the other, mechanical and slick. A zipper is where the Industrial Revolution meets the Cobra Cult.
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Let me see if I can put it in words that even the inebriated might understand.
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To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
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Modern Romans insisted that there was only one god, a notion that struck Alobar as comically simplistic.
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The oyster was an animal worthy of New Orleans, as mysterious and private and beautiful as the city itself. If one could accept that oysters build their houses out of their lives, one could imagine the same of New Orleans, whose houses were similarly and resolutely shuttered against an outside world that could never be trusted to show proper sensitivity toward the oozing delicacies within.
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There are people in this world who can wear whale masks and people who cannot, and the wise know to which group they belong.
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Your unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwellin' on himself and start paying attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form o' self-indulgence.
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The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being.
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To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
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A sense of humor, properly developed, is superior to any religion so far devised.
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If you didn't serve the nasty fellow (God), the Romans would burn your house down. If you did serve him, you were called a Christian and got to burn other people's houses down.
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Salvation is for the feeble, that's what I think. I don't want salvation, I want life, all of life, the miserable as well as the superb.
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She needed help, but God was in a meeting whenever she rang.
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I do not know why the dead do not come back to life. Perhaps death is so wonderful, in ways we cannot comprehend, that they prefer it over and above their friends and loved ones, although I am inclined to doubt that be the case.
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Above the building, the sky recalled passages from Les Miserables, threadbare and gray.
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Death is impatient and thoughtless. It barges into your room when you are right in the middle of something, and it doesn't bother to wipe its boots.
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Madame Lily Devalier always asked "Where are you?" in a way that insinuated that there were only two places on earth one could be: New Orleans and somewhere ridiculous.
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My life is not merely a public phenomenon, it is a solitary adventure as well.
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Christianity is merely a system for turning priestesses into handmaidens, queens into concubines, and goddesses into muses.
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My lunar sign is in Virgo. Every month when the moon is full, I'm driven to balance my checkbook and straighten up my apartment. I can't help myself. Instead of a werewolf I turn into an accountant.
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We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Lady Randolph Churchill
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July 22, 1932
(age 91)
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