Barry Webster Quotes

#1. In our lifetimes, we can only know a small portion of what exists. The world is endless and its treasures are inexhaustible.

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#2. I am not the wicked stepmother in this fairy's tale.

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#3. This man of his, yes, this man. Now Sam accepts his own desire. "I'm a gayrod," he shouts marching through crowded plazas. "I'm in love with a man, and I want men. That's what I want. I want man, man, man!

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#4. Rocks are more co-operative than people.

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#5. The wonderful illogicalness of life stares him in the face like God.

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#6. The ridiculous is closer to life's source than the sensible.

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#7. But once you describe something, you destroy it.

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#8. If this were a fairy tale, that meant the dragon had been slain. Or hadn't arrived yet.

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#9. The breach between the mind and body can't be healed by more knowledge."
"Then we'll go shopping. It's the only way to solve a crisis.

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#10. Der, die, das, dem, den, des. German's six ways of saying 'the', like six sexual positions you never knew existed. Hey, I just sprung a boner.

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#11. There should be a connection between a man's hairstyle and what matters to him in life.

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#12. Wind is what happens when air falls in love with itself.

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#13. Lo, each subculture has its own language, and verily I am not a parody. You don't believe me? Get with the program, crackpot!

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#14. Again Sam's genitals became rock, and this astonished him as much as anything. Through Franz, he was becoming the stone Earth; the final border separating him from the planet was disappearing. And this transformation to rock was fuelled by desire, the most ephemeral thing on Earth.

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#15. As a man I'd been a cool customer. As a woman I was a hot tamale.

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#16. But I feel vanity is a part of art and the non-vain are really non-artistic.

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#17. I shall listen to my heart and it shall save me. I shall listen to my heart and I'll be free.

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#18. Although you can not hear my thoughts, Sam, I imagine I'm talking to you. Prayers to the brother who abandoned me. The day after you left Labrador, my honey started flowing. Is my body weeping for your loss?

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#19. The fairy tale about the people who freely detach and re-attach appendages still inspires Sam. He remembers the character who interchanged his earlobes and testicles so he could acutely hear his ejaculations and enjoy a tightening at the side of his head whenever the weather got cold.

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#20. Sarcasm is the language of people whose emotions are dying.

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#21. You don't know your ass from a hole in the ground, you know that?

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#22. I surrender to the Monster. What pleasure at last to give way to the strongest force in oneself.

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