Top 45 Tom Spanbauer Quotes

#1. Have some fun while you wait for the will of heaven.

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#2. The way I figure it, we know we got this world, so live in this one while you're here. I figure the next one will take care of itself.

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#3. Books are in the mind, Grandfather Alessandro said. Too many books and you forget your body is in the world.

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#4. Miracles are out there somewhere. You just got to find them.

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#5. Looking for who I am is who I am.

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#6. At our table in the corner by the window, huddled around a flame in a red glass, all of us, body to body to body to body. The touch that proves you're not alone, that someone else is there.

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#7. Some people like to bitch, Rose said. Bitching is OK. But for me, I choose a kind of joy
a lucid compulsion
a polemical kind of fuck-you-motherfucker joy.

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#8. So I'm smoking in the house, Mother said. And Bobbie's got a dog in her room. And your son Will's got an Injun in his. So there it is, Mother said. Like it or lump it!

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#9. All daring and courage, I said, All iron endurance of misfortune, make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.

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#10. Life is a mess, Rose said. You can fix the mess human beings make, Rose said, But you can't fix the mess being human is.

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#11. A person without her or his own truth ain't a person at all, Ida said. Anybody who tells you different - is a jackass, and no longer deserves to be called human being.

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#12. Every time you hear a car alarm, Ruby said, another New Yorker has gone to hell.

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#13. LA is the me city, Ruby said, and New York is the you city. In LA it's fuck me. In New York it's fuck you.

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#14. They're from France, Ruby said, Vogue magazine. They only speak French except for fuck you.

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#15. You know, Rose said, You're not the first man in history who thinks his cock is the path to wisdom. You're not the first man to make his hard-on into the Holy Grail.

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#16. All this family shit! Harry said. How can you reinvent your life if the original versions won't leave you alone?

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#17. For the most part, I'd say if you crossed a cat with a smart dog, made him a matriarchal vegetarian, gave him sleek beauty, a mass of muscle, and the desire to run, then what you'd have is a horse.

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#18. I'm an old Catholic. I don't believe in anything Catholic but I do believe that Catholicism keeps me from committing suicide. One

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#19. Why else do we live, except to be loved and remembered by those we love?

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#20. The fates lead her who will; who won't they drag.

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#21. Life is absolutely, mysteriously beautiful.

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#22. It's the responsibility of the survivor to tell the story.

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#23. Drop-dead freshly fucked gorgeous.

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#24. Sometimes the world is so beautiful it hurts.

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#25. takes a devil to make a decent angel.

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#26. To admit ignorance is the highest knowledge. It is the necessary condition for all learning.

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#27. Identity is your role in life, the part you play. Individuality is who you are, and who you are is revealed to you if you can get to complete presence.

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#28. Maybe you've had skin next to your skin, but when was the last time you let yourself be touched?

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#29. The universe has always conspired to fuck me up.

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#30. Her heartbeat was in her hands, her heart beat the way she moved her head, her whole body was her heart beating.

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#31. I was wounded by a blow of love.

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#32. The gods know what's important, what's wrong about you. They know everything. If you go out searching for the Holy Grail, they won't let you find it.

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#33. Weird here is something we aspire to, something we perfect, get degrees in, get awards for.

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#34. Things start where you don't know and end up where you know. When you know is when you ask, How did this start?

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#35. So put your costume on, honey! Ruby said. Set Harlequin free! That party monster of yours is screaming to come out. Let the monster out!

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#36. There is nothing more lonely than a true artist.

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#37. You're going this way and then shit happens and then you're going that way.

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#38. Felt good, though, just being what I was.

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#39. With tybo men there isn't much difference between fucking and killing.

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#40. That's when you stop being one way and start being another, Ruby said. Not something many people can do, or want to do. In fact, Ruby said, The only people who cross over, cross over because they're on some kind of Mission Impossible.
I could no longer live and stay the way I was, I said.

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#41. We're all just in our bodies for a moment in our life. Such a brave and lovely act it is to let the body celebrate.

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#42. God made man because he loves to hear stories, Alessandro said. That's a good story, huh?

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#43. There's hundreds of corners on this island, Crystal said. And there are thousands of us. Exiles from the heartland without a heart. Out of the old country, a brand-new tribe, dancing to new tunes around a bucket of fire in a vacant lot.

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#44. The key to being a warrior is not to be afraid of who you are.

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#45. Trying to change yourself is as hard as trying to change the universe. Maybe there's no difference. The fact is, shit happens none of us plan on.

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