Christopher Moore Quotes
The reason I wrote 'You Suck' was that I so enjoyed spending time with Tommy and Jody.
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Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.
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I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.
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Reconciliation is a decision that you take in your heart.
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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
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I don't know if foreigners will take to my novels or not. It may be that my books appeal only to a particular gender or age group rather than convey a more universal appeal.
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The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
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Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black Friday, the tone of American entertainment changed almost overnight.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's everyday-life music. Let's see jazz musicians continue to use the materials, the tools, the spirit of the actual time that they're living in, as what they build their lives as musicians around.
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Everyone has their opinion, and if no one criticizes, how will I improve my work?
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How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you have with someone, and maybe it is to do with that, but I think you can work on it.
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I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
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Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.
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The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.
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Van Morrison is probably, at this point in time, my biggest influence as a vocalist. When we were making our last album I had a vinyl copy of 'Veedon Fleece' in the vocal booth in front of me, in the dorky sense. I think there were candles around, which is really tacky, but hey, I needed to channel Van the Man!
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We really love to learn and explore things.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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Our culture is at its best when we protect and encourage the weakest. Every life - at every stage, in every place - has a dignity beyond our imagining.
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I#pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change # God - it changes me.
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Don't get me wrong. I want people to know who I am.
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Please, you don't want to raise a generation of science students who don't understand how we know our place in the cosmos, who don't understand natural law.
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Addiction is a symptom of not growing up.
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The reason I wrote 'You Suck' was that I so enjoyed spending time with Tommy and Jody.
