“I like ambition. I like someone who gets up in the morning and has a purpose. A real purpose. I have one. I want whoever I love to have one."
"I always look forward to breakfast.”
― Joe R. Lansdale, quote from Mucho Mojo
“There's no one more obnoxious and self-righteous than the self-made man. And no one more admirable.”
― Joe R. Lansdale, quote from Mucho Mojo
“Aren't you embarrassed undressing in front of a queer?" Leonard said. "All you know, I might be sizing up your butthole."
"Just call me a tease.”
― Joe R. Lansdale, quote from Mucho Mojo
“You want to know what I'm wearing?"
"Not unless you think it'll really get me excited."
"I'm afraid clothes have to have women in them for you to get excited."
"Maybe you could talk in a high voice."
"Cut through the shit, Hap.”
― Joe R. Lansdale, quote from Mucho Mojo
“You're brooding, Leonard, my friend. What's the problem?"
"I blew it with Fitzgerald."
"I don't think you're giving yourself enough credit. It was more like a nuclear disaster.”
― Joe R. Lansdale, quote from Mucho Mojo
“Hap, even tough I'm a racist castrating bitch that wants you to be better than you are, wants you to do something with your life besides be a knockabout, do you think you could find it in your heart, in your itty-bitty white man's dick, to get a hard-on for me? In other words, want to fuck?”
― Joe R. Lansdale, quote from Mucho Mojo
Joe R. Lansdale
Born place: in Gladewater, Texas , The United States
Born date October 28, 1951
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“There is only darkness, starless and complete. The waves glitter like a million dull knives.”
― Iain Banks, quote from The Bridge
“This is how I show my students that I love them—by putting books in their hands, by noticing what they are about, and finding books that tell them, “I know. I know. I know how it is. I know who you are, and even though we may never speak of it, read this book, and know that I understand you.” We speak in this language of books passing back and forth, books that say, “You are a dreamer; read this.” “You are hurting inside; read this.” “You need a good laugh; read this.”
― Donalyn Miller, quote from The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child
“Forgiveness is about the past. Trust and respect are about the future. Forgiveness will be in the hands of others and can be given to you, but trust and respect are in your own hands … and must be earned.”
― Andy Andrews, quote from The Noticer: Sometimes, All a Person Needs Is a Little Perspective
“The real question one should ask when presented with a puzzle is, ‘Should I solve it? Do I really need to know the answer?”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, quote from The Search for WondLa
“W. S. Plumer said, “We never see sin aright until we see it as against God...All sin is against God in this sense: that it is His law that is broken, His authority that is despised, His government that is set at naught...Pharaoh and Balaam, Saul and Judas each said, ‘I have sinned’; but the returning prodigal said, ‘I have sinned against heaven and before thee’; and David said, ‘Against Thee, Thee only have I sinned.”
― Jerry Bridges, quote from The Pursuit of Holiness
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