Tim Tharp Quotes

#1. I'm going to grab hold of this night and crack it open, eat the fruit right out of the middle, and throw away the rind.

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#2. It's more like I was daydreaming when the Supreme Being told me what I should do with my life, and it's too late to ask what it was.

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#3. She's drenched and bedraggled, but I've never loved anyone as much as I love her right now. That's how I know I'll have to give her up.

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#4. Life is made out of Thursday afternoons. You just keep having them one after the other and let everything else take care of itself.

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#5. Childhood was a fantastic country to live in.

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#6. Beauty's all around me right here. It's not in a textbook. It's not in an equation. I mean, take the sunlight ... The colors flow into your lungs, into your bloodstream. You are the colors.

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#7. Boredom is only for boring people with no imagination.

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#8. Just remember this- weird's good. Embrace the weird, dude. Enjoy it because it's never going away.

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#9. She might be the only girl I've ever met who still hasn't learned to sacrifice bodily comfort for fashion's sake.

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#10. Nothing helps. I'm a black spot on the chest X-ray of the universe.

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#11. I did it! I stopped time.

[Hampton Green]

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#12. She's still smiling her little smile, and it strikes me that, actually, she is drunk, not on alcohol, but on her St. Louis hopes and dreams. I wouldn't sober her up for anything, but she doesn't need me anymore. She can hang on to her dreams by herself now.

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#13. Here in the realm of books she's self-assured. She has some of the control she doesn't have anywhere else.

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#14. No,' I say l. 'It's not all right. But I couldn't help it

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#15. The best thing about now, is that there's another one tomorrow.

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#16. Nothing lasts," she says, and there's a little crack in her voice. "You think it's going to. You think, 'Here's something I can hold on to,' but it always slips away.

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#17. That's how it is with legends. The greater they sound, the more must've got left out.

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#18. Cassidy brings something beautiful to me from the outside. Aimee brings something beautiful up from the depths of my insides.
"I can't dance like Cassidy," she says.
"Yeah, but you dance like Aimee. And that's perfect.

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#19. See, I agree with what Cassidy says - once you have sex you'll always be sewn together with an astral thread.

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#20. There's no room inside for feeling any worse

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#21. Sometimes I have trouble sleeping. It's weird - I can feel exhausted but still, I just lie there wide awake, staring up into the dark with all sorts of ideas bombarding me like dead pelicans

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#22. Her voice would remain cool and soft like a pillow to lay your head on after a hard day

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#23. This idea comes to me that we're all grass blades on the same lawn. We've grown up together, shoulder to shoulder, under the same sun, drinking the same rain. But you know what happens to grass blades-somebody cuts them down just when they reach their prime.

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#24. The thought does cross my mind that I could slip and end up cracking my head on the pavement just short of the pool, but if you're always going to worry about minor drawbacks, then you'll never accomplish anything.

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#25. Goodbye, I say, goodbye, as I disappear little by little into the middle of the middle of my own spectacular now

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#26. Just wait. Someone's going to come along, someone you never expected, someone who needs you because you're you.

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#27. I like you so much, she says between kisses. And I can tell she wants to say love instead of like, not because she really does love me but because she just wants to say it. Of course, she can't, though. Not when I haven't said it first.

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#28. I'm not a dream crusher. The real world already does enough of that without me getting into the business

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#29. Her voice is so soft. If it were a food item, it'd be a marshmallow.

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#30. You just go around acting like you're saving other people so you don't have to deal with your own problems.

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#31. You think beauty's in some classroom or some textbook, and it's not. That's not what it's about. This right here. This is beautiful. All of this. That's all you need.

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#32. And then there are the ex-girlfriends. They look incredible, every one of them.

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#33. I like to think there's more to a person than just one thing.

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#34. And that's it - he goes his way, and I go mine. Used to, we would've broken down that whole story about my dad until we found the very truth of the truth of it, but now it's just, So long, I'll see you later.

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#35. When you're with a girl, it's always best to act like you're an old hand at everything - not to impress her, but just to make sure she feels safe.

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#36. See, I do have a future to give her after all, just not one that includes me.

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#37. The real world is coming, chugging straight at me like a bulldozer into the rain forest.

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#38. Now, thinking back on my exes is like looking at a flowerbed on the other side of a window. They're beautiful, but you can't touch them.

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#39. That's all right,' she says, and I have to wonder how many times she's said that to the people in her life who screwed her over somehow

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#40. Books seem a little old-fashioned, but hey, I can do old-fashioned if it's good.

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#41. I don't believe in that - the husband and wife having to be just alike. I think it's better if they kind of offset each other. Like if they have these different dimensions they can bring to each other.

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#42. We all want something that sticks

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#43. Don't worry," says Ricky. "I'm sure everyone isn't bringing a present. You can just think of paying the cover charge as your gift."

"What? A cover charge? Presents? What are these people, a bunch of capitalists?

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#44. Don't worry about who has the power in the relationship all the time. If you make her happy, then that's the biggest power you can have.

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#45. We're toasting the chlorophyll rising in our bodies, catching the energy from the universe. Nobody's ever been young like we are right at this moment.

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#46. My job is okay. You know what an okay job is, don't you? It's a job you only hate some of the time instead of all of the time

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#47. The whole magnetic thing about sex is you want the other person to want you.

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#48. Talk about enchantment. Forget about working for something just to have it fall apart on you. Let the magic come. That's what I say. Let the magic come and fill in every inch of that little black crack behind your breastbone.

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#49. Yes, life is weird, but I embrace the weird. Let everyone else go marching off into their great shining futures if they want. Me, I've always been more than content to tip my whisky bottle and take a ride straight into the heart of the spectacular now.

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#50. Sometimes my tact takes a vacation. Tonight it must've gone to Kuwait or somewhere.

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#51. You're nothing but a product. And what's this product called? Emptiness, dude, that's what it's called. And for the rest of your life, they sell you over and over, right to the end when they package you one last time and plant you in the ground.

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#52. I guarantee there is nothing more depressing than knowing morons have complete power over you.

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#53. Have you ever started to wave at someone and then realized they weren't really waving at you, so you abort and go for a head scratch instead? That's how I felt.

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#54. Life is spectacular. Forget the dark things. Take a drink and let time wash them away to where ever time washes away to.

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#55. What else am I going to do, let the girl sit there on a railing in the moonlight thinking she's damned to go dudeless for the rest of her life?

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#56. There's more kinds of pain than just physical pain, you know.

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#57. See, this is the other side of the coin. This is a girl's downfall. The guy goes soft in the head and starts talking to her like a moron and she wants to take care of him. He's just cuddly fool who can't make it without her.

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#58. Besides, it doesn't matter if it's real. It never does with dreams. They aren't anything anyway but lifesavers to cling to so you don't drown. Life is an ocean, and most everyone's hanging on to some kind of dream to keep afloat.

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#59. To hell with tomorrow. To hell with all problems and barriers. Nothing matters but the Spectacular Now.

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#60. They've drummed the miraculous out of you, but you don't want it to be like that. You want the miraculous. You want everything to still be new.

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#61. Our whole society's a training ground for addicts.

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#62. They've made the mistake of thinking that power over others and leadership are the same thing.

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#63. When you're a little kid. Everything is a sparkling wonder.

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#64. This looks interesting, I say, but what I'm really thinking is, Wow, Aimee, science fiction? Really, could you try any harder to brand yourself with the mark of the nerd herd? What's next, anime?

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#65. I want to swear to the king of the king of the kings it's enough. But this afternoon the magic has all run out.

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#66. You know how when you see someone day in, day out, year after year, you don't really notice him getting taller or wider or older or whatever? It can be like that with the way people are on the inside too.

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#67. That's what the prom is - St. Patrick's Day for the young.

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#68. Finally, she's like, I know it looks bad right now, but parents are just people. They don't always know what to do. That doesn't mean they don't love you.

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#69. Your eyes are a blue universe, and I'm just falling into them. No parachute. I don't need one because I'm never going to hit the ground.

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#70. His wife isn't attractive in any official way, but she is beautiful. It's awesome when she shows up at the store - her face beams, his face beams, and I'm sure my face beams just from watching the two of them.

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#71. It's fine to live in the now. but the best thing about now is that there's another one tomorrow. i'm going to start making them count.

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#72. That type of dream just kind of wears out with time like a favorite old T-shirt. One day, it's nothing but tatters and all you can do is throw it over on the rag pile with the others.

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#73. It's too big to change. It's too heavy and all sharp-cornered and shit.

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#74. Uh, sure, if it doesn't take too long. I'm supposed to be at a big police banquet in about thirty seconds. They'll probably send a car by for me if I'm late.

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#75. That's how it is online - there's no time in cyberspace. It's almost like everything physical evaporates, and it's just your mind and the different sites floating in a void.

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