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Quotes from Callahan's Lady — Spider Robinson

born 1948 Canada

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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)

An unkind God gave us more tender places than He gave us hands to cover them.

Callahan's Lady (1989)

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)

Please, dear. Vengeance is counterproductive. Not to mention the fact that it gets your soul all sticky.

Callahan's Lady (1989)

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)

Lady Sally does not permit any kind of contempt here. Not even self-contempt. Maybe especially not self-contempt. Art with contempt in it is always sour.

Callahan's Lady (1989)

Take it from your Aunt Maureen: if there is any way you can arrange your affairs so as to avoid dropping into whorehouse garbage from a great height, naked in February, then that is almost certainly the course your life should take.

Callahan's Lady (1989)

The Professor had come back from the Infinite. His eyes unrolled, his shoulders slumped slightly, and he acquired a wistful smile, as of one leaving Paradise to attend a sales convention in Columbus, Ohio.

Callahan's Lady (1989)

Oh, any bordello hears secrets, by definition: if our culture were not so sick that natural healthy urges are deadly secrets, there would be little need for bordellos. Father Newman suggested once, only half kidding, that we artists—that all prostitutes—function rather like priests for people who feel more natural confessing their sins while naked.

Callahan's Lady (1989)

Maybe I’m being illogical. I like word games, anagrams, palindromes, verbal puzzles: why are they okay and straight puns abhorrent? I think because in a straight pun, all the cleverness and wit has been used to poke a hole through the very idea of language, the possibility of communicating unambiguously with words—and that’s too dismaying to be funny to me.

Callahan's Lady (1989)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Spider Robinson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.