Reincarnation Blues
Michael Poore
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The longer she lived in San Viejo, the more she appreciated the kind of things that went with living. Like having a window open when you slept, and grass, and tortillas. Being happy when people came to visit, and being happy when they left. The way certain things felt wonderful when you held them in your hands: a book, an ax, a baby, a beer, a big-ass pile of M&M’s.”
“Flying with Death was like being in a sleeping bag with a sensuous woman and a tarantula.”
“Your soul will be canceled like a dumb TV show.”
“When people try to destroy art or thought... it makes all forms of art and thought valuable. It's a slippery slope once we start saying what people should or shouldn't see”
“Perfection is being happy with what you are right now.”
“Listen," said the Master, coughing. "Don't search the ends of the Earth looking for your happiness. Perfection is being happy with what you are right now." "What if you're an asshole?" someone called. The Master offered a weak smile. "I doubt very much," he said, "that many happy people are assholes.”
“All good parents taught their kids this same lesson: If everyone agreed to suffer pain or death rather than be treated unjustly, greedy people could never again gain power.”
“There was this one idea going out to all the people on all the planets that maybe you couldn’t get people to stop being predators, but you could get them to stop being prey.”
“Sometimes superheroes are regular people, and there are millions of them, typing away at their keyboards.”
“It’s dangerous applying hindsight to something as complex as why someone wrote a poem, because the temptation is to try and make it make sense. We can apply reason, but what we can’t do is apply the storms and variations that govern a human mind moment to moment.”
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