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{{quote|''Zippers remind me of alligators, lobsters, and Aztec serpents.... Zippers are primal and modern at the very same time.... Little alligators of ecstasy, that's what zippers are.''}}
{{quote|''The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.''
|from ''Still Life With Woodpecker''}}
{{quote|''I believe in everything; nothing is sacred.
''I believe in nothing; everything is sacred.''
|from ''Even Cowgirls Get the Blues''}}
{{quote|''Hardly a pure science, history is closer to animal husbandry than it is to mathematics, in that it involves selective breeding. The principal difference between the husbandryman and the historian is that the former breeds sheep or cows or such, and the latter breeds (assumed) facts. The husbandryman uses his skills to enrich the future; the historian uses his to enrich the past. Both are usually up to their ankles in bullshit.}}
{{quote|'' "You mean, if you allow the master to be uncivil, to treat you any old way he likes, and to insult your dignity, then he may deem you fit to hear his view of things?"
"Quite the contrary. You must defend your integrity, assuming you have integrity to defend. But you must defend it nobly, not by imitating his own low behavior. If you are gentle where he is rough, if you are polite where he is uncouth, then he will recognize you as potentially worthy. If he does not, then he is not a master, after all, and you may feel free to kick his ass."''
|from ''Jitterbug Perfume''}}
{{quote|''Me, I love the rich. *Somebody* has to love them. Sure, a lot of rich people are assholes, but believe me, a lot of poor people are assholes too. And an asshole with money can at least pay for his own drinks.''
|from ''Jitterbug Perfume''}}
{{quote|''There is a limit to the admiration we may hold for a man who spends his waking hours poking the contents of chickens with a stick.''
|from ''Jitterbug Perfume''}}
{{quote|''Violence stinks, no matter which end of it you're on. But now and then there's nothing left to do but hit the other person over the head with a frying pan. Sometimes people are just begging for that frypan, and if we weaken for a moment and honor their request, we should regard it as impulsive philanthropy, which we aren't in any position to afford, but shouldn't regret it too loudly lest we spoil the purity of the deed.}}
{{quote|''"There are two mantras in life: Yuck and yum. Mine is yum."''
|from ''Still Life With Woodpecker''}}
{{quote|''Long as you're not afraid, nobody can run your life for you. Remember that. Hell is being scared of things. Heaven is refusing to be scared.}}
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