Brian McGreevy Quotes

#1. And it made me hurt inside of my bones with sadness. Because in a life that is long and well lived there are sorrows and darkest doldrums that cannot be understood by those who live day to day like it could be any other.

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#2. To the eye a shot is only geometry and yardage and wind, but to a still-beating heart pulling a trigger on another living body and watching it fall is to be avoided, it does not give you a good feeling. If you aren't a psychopath or a male.

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#3. But she would make it, because maybe he wasn't much of a warrior but if there was one thing that he was cut out for it was an epic and retarded act of love.

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#4. But there are frogs deadlier than sharks

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#5. A rich man, was one who spent a million.

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#6. The first step to liberty is respecting the rights of others.

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#7. Fear is a communicable disease; it comes out in the sweat and passes from host to host. Fear is an incendiary agent; it combusts with stupidity.

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#8. Tiring because he felt prematurely the weight of carrying how stupidly fucking sad this was for the rest of his days.

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#9. He had not actually known what to expect in coming here tonight, much less that it would reveal to him two essential truths of life: that men do become wolves and that if you have the privilege to be witness to such a transformation it is the most natural and right thing you have ever seen.

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#10. Our love must not be a thing of words and fine talk. It must be a thing of action and sincerity.

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#11. Well what? said Peter. He knew but had learned that if there was one advantage to the male sex it was that your obtuseness would never be underestimated; if you pretend you don't know what the problem is, half the time it just goes away.

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#12. All in all, Peter's love of being Peter was so great that like an overfilled bucket of paint it slopped over even in the smallest moments of his day.

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#13. The thing about coming back from the dead was that your life went on.

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#14. If Roman Godfrey was a riddle, Shelley was the epic fornication of mystery and enigma

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#15. God doesn't want you to be happy, He wants you to be strong.

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#16. I have an ugliness it's impossible to love.

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#17. There is no upward limit to the number of times you can make the same mistake.

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#18. A question is a door and an unopened door is just part of the wall and as long as it's standing it's doing its job.

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#19. Write it on the bottom of your shoes for the devil to read.

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#20. Like a night when the energy is bloody unsalvageable but the show must et cetera. Domesticity. Times when one wonders if Medea is a tragedy or goddamn wish fulfillment.

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#21. Pain was as much a part of this life as the summer and the winter and the rain, and there was no greater asshole than the one who believed you can cure it.

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#22. And remember: the flesh is as sacred as it is profane.

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#23. Knowing before ever seeing it that her ass was like a stationary drop of water on a flower stem

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#24. Peter's privatemost circuitry a sudden and confusing crossfiring at how arousing and simultaneously dick-shriveling this apparition was.

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#25. Dr. Johann Pryce, he said, and there was a certain spurious slickness to his carriage and his smile that brought to mind the rainbow patina of oil on a puddle.

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#26. Wisdom is where the brain meets the heart.

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#27. It's weird that impossible is even a word.

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#28. No good ever came out of possessing a firearm in a Patsy Cline singing mood.

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#29. These fires go out but the coals don't. If this isn't ended it will be just around the corner everyday of his life. And if you don't let a boy become a man, it's no one's fault but your own when you're still wiping his ass when he should be making you grandchildren.

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#30. Essential truths gained by loss in translation. The essence of beauty not perfection, but the doomed aspiration.

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#31. That's the thing with whispers, you know you put a thousand of them together and you get howl.

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#32. If you stood at the other end of the universe seeking resolution you would just end up feeling like an idiot for trying.

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#33. Hey hey hey," said Roman, "we don't love with our teeth.

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#34. If a problem can't be solved within the frame it was conceived, the solution lies in reframing the problem.

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#35. Every time she used his name it was putting a pat of butter on a slice of botulism.

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#36. We can't know if we laugh at ourselves for being silly or to forget that we're not and that we are still here only by a sufferance that can be no more predicted than appeased. Like most things, probably a little of both.

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#37. I am ugly, Uncle. There is no other way to put it. But that does not mean I am without pride, without
joy, without the same entitlement to feel deserving of love from those not obligated by blood to give
it. I may be ugly, but I can hardly imagine a reason to act like it.

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#38. It made his beard a liar.

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#39. Senses will lie as dreams wake. You are not on solid ground. Don't look down.

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#40. Domesticity. Times when one wonders if Medea is a tragedy or a goddamn wish fulfillment.

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