Practical Demonkeeping Quotes
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Practical Demonkeeping Quotes
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“If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them.”
― Practical Demonkeeping
― Practical Demonkeeping
“I've seen more intelligence in the crotch lice of harem whores.”
― Practical Demonkeeping
― Practical Demonkeeping
“I can be most colorful and inventive when I am angry.”
― Practical Demonkeeping
― Practical Demonkeeping
“By Aladdin's lamplit scrotum, man! Everything is a story. What is there but stories? Stories are the only truth.”
― Practical Demonkeeping
― Practical Demonkeeping
“May the IRS find that you deduct your pet sheep as an entertainment expense.”
― Practical Demonkeeping
― Practical Demonkeeping
“The netherworld is timeless and unchanging, and boring -- much like a doctor's waiting room.”
― Practical Demonkeeping
― Practical Demonkeeping
“The prospect of change is a many-fanged beast, my dear.”
― Practical Demonkeeping
― Practical Demonkeeping
“Slowly and gently, Augustus Brine explained to the king of the Djinn about the illusion created by motion pictures. When he finished, he felt like he had just raped the tooth fairy in front of a class of kindergartners.”
― Practical Demonkeeping
― Practical Demonkeeping
“Nothing evokes the prurient like puritanism.”
― Practical Demonkeeping
― Practical Demonkeeping
“One day the good times had to keep on rolling, and all of life's horseshit would turn to circuses.”
― Practical Demonkeeping
― Practical Demonkeeping
“Everything is a story. What is there but stories? Stories are the only truth.”
― Practical Demonkeeping
― Practical Demonkeeping
“Rachel could not believe what she was hearing. Accepting that her magic worked was a huge step, yet she was speaking to the evidence. But to be offered the power to rule the world? She wasn't sure her career in exercise instruction had prepared her for this.”
― Practical Demonkeeping
― Practical Demonkeeping
“He had tapped into the Zen of ignorance, the enlightenment of absurdity.”
― Practical Demonkeeping
― Practical Demonkeeping
“In business, as in politics, the public is ever so tolerant of those who slime.”
― Practical Demonkeeping
― Practical Demonkeeping
“For the tourist, immersed in the oblivion of vacation spending, Cypress Street provided a bonanza of curious gifts to prove to the folks back home that they had been somewhere. Somewhere where they had obviously forgotten that soon they would return home to a mortgage, dental bills, and an American Express bill that would descend at the end of the month like a financial Angel of Death. And they bought. They bought effigies of”
― Practical Demonkeeping
― Practical Demonkeeping
“Everyone at the bar turned toward The Breeze and waited, as if the next few words he spoke would reveal the true meaning of life, the winning numbers of the lottery, and the unlisted phone number of God.”
― Practical Demonkeeping
― Practical Demonkeeping
“The garlic bread lay there between them, steaming with implications. They, of course, must both eat it or neither could. Garlic bread meant garlic breath. There might be a kiss later, maybe more. There was just too damn much intimacy in garlic bread.”
― Practical Demonkeeping
― Practical Demonkeeping
“Creatures of the night were rising from their resting places and venturing forth to feed on their unsuspecting victims.”
― Practical Demonkeeping
― Practical Demonkeeping
“In Breeze’s business one got used to running across the skeletons in people’s closets. If Billy’s skeleton wore women’s underwear, it didn’t really matter. Homosexuality on Billy Winston was like acne on a leper.”
― Practical Demonkeeping
― Practical Demonkeeping
“Die Behauptung, daß Effrom nicht besonders gut kochen konnte, war eine Untertreibung von ähnlichem Kaliber wie die Feststellung, daß es sich bei Völkermord um eine nicht besonders erfolgversprechende PR-Strategie handele.”
― Practical Demonkeeping
― Practical Demonkeeping
“»Du hast Heiden vernichtet? Ich dachte, die Erdgeister seien wohlgesinnt.«
»Jeder hat mal Aussetzer.”
― Practical Demonkeeping
»Jeder hat mal Aussetzer.”
― Practical Demonkeeping
“Das Leben war Handeln, es gab keinen Frieden diesseits des Grabes.”
― Practical Demonkeeping
― Practical Demonkeeping
“»Das Prinzip Moral verstehe ich nicht.«
»Das überrascht mich nicht im geringsten.«”
― Practical Demonkeeping
»Das überrascht mich nicht im geringsten.«”
― Practical Demonkeeping
“doch ihre Gegenwart hatte in ihm stets das Gefühl ausgelöst, daß seine eheliche Treue lediglich eine absurde Wahnvorstellung war.”
― Practical Demonkeeping
― Practical Demonkeeping
“To say that Effrom was not a particularly good cook was an understatement akin to saying that genocide is not a particularly effective public relations strategy.”
― Practical Demonkeeping
― Practical Demonkeeping
“I’ve known him for seventy years. I’ll vouch for his lack of character”
― Practical Demonkeeping
― Practical Demonkeeping
“I found you here, Augustus Brine, listening to the noise of the universe, holding in your heart a spark of hope, like all fishermen, but resolved to be disappointed.”
― Practical Demonkeeping
― Practical Demonkeeping
“What’s morality?” “It’s the difference between what is right and what you can rationalize.”
― Practical Demonkeeping
― Practical Demonkeeping
“Strangely enough, Brine took comfort in the fact that this experience was invalidating every assumption he had ever made about the nature of the world. He had tapped into the Zen of ignorance, the enlightenment of absurdity.”
― Practical Demonkeeping
― Practical Demonkeeping
“And then again, maybe he could just climb a stream of angel piss to heaven.”
― Practical Demonkeeping
― Practical Demonkeeping