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Joe R. Lansdale Quotes: There's no one more obnoxious and self-righteous than the self-made man. And no one more admirable.
         

There's no one more obnoxious and self-righteous than the self-made man. And no one more admirable.


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I have finally become my own genre, and now that's what publishers want. I have a wonderful publisher now, Mulholland, very innovated, very fine people working there.



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The logic of a madman is a sane man's confusion.



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They might have been all-right people doing the best they could, but I got to tell you, you got a dead cat lying in your yard you ought to bury it. That’s my motto.



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Only our memories allow that some people ever existed. That they mattered, or mattered too much.



It was the kind of talk that made me want to break off a limb and take to whacking her and that bunch of hypocrites across the back of the head.

It was the kind of talk that made me want to break off a limb and take to whacking her and that bunch of hypocrites across the back of the head.





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We all know the sense of comfort of which we are conscious when a good half of the floor space in a room is unencumbered this seems to offer us the agreeable possibility of moving about freely.



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May you keep dreaming until the day you die. May imagination overtake memory. May you die young at a ripe old age.



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Vimes struggled to his feet, shook his head and set off after it. No thought was involved. It is the ancient instinct of terriers and policemen to chase anything that runs away.



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I will steal your dreams tonight. Dark




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