Quotes from Callahan's Crosstime Saloon

“Some guys step on a rake in the dark, and get mad and go punch somebody. Others step on a rake in the dark and fall down laughing at themselves. I know which kind of guy I'd rather be. So do my friends.”
― Spider Robinson, quote from Callahan's Crosstime Saloon

“Just as there are laws of Conservation of Matter and Energy, so there are in fact Laws of Conservation of Pain and Joy. Neither can ever be created or destroyed. But one can be converted into the other.”
― Spider Robinson, quote from Callahan's Crosstime Saloon

“there's nothing in the human heart or mind, no place no matter how twisted or secret, that can't be endured - if you have someone to share it with.”
― Spider Robinson, quote from Callahan's Crosstime Saloon

“Shared sorrow is lessened, shared joy is increased”
― Spider Robinson, quote from Callahan's Crosstime Saloon

“And there's this place called college! I mean, they want you to care, dig it, care about this education trip, and they don't care enough themselves to make it as attractive as the crap game across the street!”
― Spider Robinson, quote from Callahan's Crosstime Saloon

“Progress is something with no pity, and no purpose. It just happens. It chews up all you ever knew, and spits out things you can't understand, and the only value it seems to have is to make a few people a lot of money.”
― Spider Robinson, quote from Callahan's Crosstime Saloon

“it's better than a stick in the eye”
― Spider Robinson, quote from Callahan's Crosstime Saloon

“He smiled like a sun lamp.”
― Spider Robinson, quote from Callahan's Crosstime Saloon

“Hey Jake. I got an idea.'
'Be gentle with it,' the Doc grinned. 'It's in a strange place.”
― Spider Robinson, quote from Callahan's Crosstime Saloon

“A naked blade is reckoned to be less obscene than a naked woman.”
― Spider Robinson, quote from Callahan's Crosstime Saloon

“It's a rare hurt that can stand under the advice, help, and sympathy generated by upwards of thirty people that care. Callahan loses a lot of his regulars. After they've been coming around long enough, they find they don't need to drink any more.”
― Spider Robinson, quote from Callahan's Crosstime Saloon

“Callahan dried his big meaty hands on his apron and cleared his throat with a sound like a bulldozer in pain.”
― Spider Robinson, quote from Callahan's Crosstime Saloon

“Doc Webster's eyes rolled briefly, like loaded dice, and came up snake eyes.”
― Spider Robinson, quote from Callahan's Crosstime Saloon

“Certainly, all of us at Callahan's were heir to the tradition of the B-movie — and the A-movie for that matter — that any female who enters your life in a dramatic manner must be your fated love.”
― Spider Robinson, quote from Callahan's Crosstime Saloon

“There's a price for absolution on this planet, and it's called penance.”
― Spider Robinson, quote from Callahan's Crosstime Saloon

“She was black and a woman and scarred, and as the thought formed in our minds we realized that it was a redundancy. Her scar was visible externally, was all.”
― Spider Robinson, quote from Callahan's Crosstime Saloon

“What shocked us the most was that we had no idea why we should be so shocked. Like opening a ginger ale and finding Jamesons' inside: nothing wrong with it, but it sort of takes you by surprise.”
― Spider Robinson, quote from Callahan's Crosstime Saloon

“A surprising percentage of your own society, with all your heritage of murder, would like to believe that Life survives by going to the supermarket. So the ideal would be to train cattle to make butcher knives and take turns cutting each other up at a convenient location.”
― Spider Robinson, quote from Callahan's Crosstime Saloon

“The expense of eating is, in great part, the resistance the second life offers to being eaten.”
― Spider Robinson, quote from Callahan's Crosstime Saloon

“Corinne told us that revolution was brewing in the hills to the north, under the leadership of a man named Miranda, who with absurd inevitability had styled himself El Supremo.”
― Spider Robinson, quote from Callahan's Crosstime Saloon

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