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Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won’t adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice.
Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
There are only two mantras... yum and yuk. Mine is yum.
Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
The moon can't help it. It's only an object. The moon doesn't mean to set things sloshing—in every ocean's basin, in every female's uterus, in every poet's jar of ink, in every madman's drool.
Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
Funny how we think of romance as always involving two, when the romance of solitude can be ever so much more delicious and intense.
Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
My love for you has no strings attached. I love you for free.
Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
I'm an outlaw, not a hero. I never intended to rescue you. We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.
Still Life with Woodpecker (1981)
When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us.
Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
She lunched on papaya poo poo or mango mu mu or some other fruity foo foo bursting with overripe tropical vowels.
Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
Any half-awake materialist well knows — that which you hold holds you.
Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
Her surname resembled a line from an optometrist's examination chart.
Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
If this typewriter can't do it, then fuck it, it can't be done.
Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
The man and woman firmly shook hands. The solution to the overpopulation problem might rest in such handshakes.
Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
A better world has gotta start somewhere. Why not with you and me?
Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
The first time that she spread her legs for him it had been like opening her jaws for the dentist.
Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
I sense that novel of my dreams is in the Remington SL3 — although it writes much faster than I can spell.
Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
She tried out the chamber pot, although she really had nothing to contribute.
Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
There are two kinds of people in this world : those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better.
Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
Hawaii made the mouth of her soul water.
Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)