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Shared pain is lessened; shared joy, increased — thus do we refute entropy.
If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron.
God is an Iron (1977)
As Bob Dylan forgot to say, "To live outside the law, you must be lucky."
Callahan's Key (2000)
Terror leaves you when you despair; once you let yourself hope again it returns redoubled.
Callahan's Lady (1989)
As the poet tells us: once a king, always a king—but once a night is often sufficient.
Callahan's Lady (1989)
Don’t waste time blaming the bull if you can’t make it moo.
Callahan's Lady (1989)
It is relatively foolproof—but you’re right, I forgot to make it moronproof.
Callahan's Lady (1989)
This is a House of healthy repute—no sleaze, fleas or social disease.
Callahan's Lady (1989)
Nikky has more fiber than I do, I guess: he doesn't let a little thing like death slow him down.
Callahan's Key (2000)
An unkind God gave us more tender places than He gave us hands to cover them.
Callahan's Lady (1989)
Shared pain is lessened; shared joy is increased; thus do we refute entropy.
You can show a dozen guys murderin’ each other on TV but you can’t ever show two people making love. The naked blade is reckoned to be less obscene than a naked woman.
Above all, he—and his goofball customers—believed that shared pain is lessened, and shared Joy increased.
There are basically three kinds of prostitute: street hooker, call girl, and house whore. Each kind is convinced that the other two are the lowest of the low.
Callahan's Lady (1989)
The prime datum of the Universe is that life survives by eating life, and no other way. The expense of eating is, in great part, the resistance the second life offers to being eaten.
Please, dear. Vengeance is counterproductive. Not to mention the fact that it gets your soul all sticky.
Callahan's Lady (1989)
If we have to, we can all go to Hell together—maybe there’s a group rate.
Tom said what struck him was how little progress churches have made in two hundred years toward convincing people that the unknown is not by definition evil.
If you’ve lived a bad life, they send you to Hell. But if you’ve been truly wicked, they give you a tour of Heaven first….
Callahan's Lady (1989)
He stroked my hair. “But don’t worry. To coin a phrase, I have a plan.”
Callahan's Lady (1989)