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Nothing builds confidence like live ammo.
Tim Dorsey / Novelist
Ammo
Building Confidence
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Always walk away from a fight. Then ambush.
Tim Dorsey / Novelist
Ambush
Fighting
Walks
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Relieve stress through hysterical screaming.
Tim Dorsey / Novelist
Hysterical
Stress
Stress Relieving
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It's only socialism if the money goes down, not up.
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Ifs
Socialism
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Almighty Father, please stop making jerks. Amen...Break!
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Break
Father
Jerk
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I don't suffer from insanity. I can actually say that I enjoy it.
Tim Dorsey / Novelist
Enjoy
Insanity
Suffering
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There, I'm an artist. Thousands of women on ecstasy now want to have three-ways with me.
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Artist
Three
Want
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Don't make fun of people who are different. Unless they have more money and influence. Then you must
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Different
Fun
People
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Murder is such a charged word. You know how some people fixate and won't let things go? They're called cops.
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Cop
Murder
People
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Look forward to the wonderment of growing up, raising a family and driving by the gas station where the popular kids now work.
Tim Dorsey / Novelist
Kids
Gas Stations
Growing Up
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A prosthetic leg with a Willie Nelson bumper sticker washed ashore on the beach, which meant it was Florida. Then it got weird.
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Beach
Florida
Legs
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These are different animals now. They're starting to winnow out the weak at the fringe of the herd. We need to hurry or this could affect our snack situation.
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Animal
Different
Snacks
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But instead they tell you they'll come to fix your cable between noon and five, and I say, okay, I'll pay my next bill between July and November, but they don't laugh.
Tim Dorsey / Novelist
July
Laughing
Noon
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Hang on to your dreams with everything you got. Because the best life is when your dreams come true. The second-best is when they don't but you never stop chasing them.
Tim Dorsey / Novelist
Dream
Life Is
Second Best
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Nature's what it's all about, but our people have been brainwashed into thinking that life is a cell phone against your head and the TV on a beer commercial with hot chicks.
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Beer
Phones
Thinking
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Our political process appears to be a toxic dance of mutually assured destruction that takes all the citizens down with you, and that can't be right. So I've prepared a little experiment.
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Citizens
Political
Toxic
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My problem is with the warped value system our culture has. Why is it that if you knife a woman in a movie it's PG, but if you swear at her it's rated R and if you make love to her it's rated X?
Tim Dorsey / Novelist
Culture
Knives
Making Love
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The whole family is a bunch of dangerous freaks...Most are ex-cons or junkies or deranged from inbreeding. Five have died violently, three are back in prison, two have gone insane from untreated venereal disease, and one writes book reviews.
Tim Dorsey / Novelist
Book
Two
Writing
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A strip club is one of the few places where two groups voluntarily come together who have such precipitous contrasts in net worth and familiarity with violence, each group with a head-and-shoulders edge in one category. The basic math of a tropical storm.
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Math
Storm
Two
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Back at the Rash [a Florida nightclub], a waif in a lime latex body tube went into the rest room to snort the newest designer drug, XGB5, which gave people the uncanny sensation of throwing money away while chewing their own lips off. It was hard to come by and everyone had to have it.
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Drug
Florida
People
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But you have to understand, mental illness is like cholesterol. There is is good kind and the bad. Without the good kind- less flavor to life. Van Gogh, Beethoven, Edgar Allen Poe, Sylvia Plath, Pink Floyd (the early Piper at the Gates of Dawn line up), scientific breakthroughs, spiritual revolution, utopian visions, zany nationalism that kills millions- wait, that’s the bad kind. Tim Dorsey (Hurricane Punch)
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Spiritual
Vision
Waiting
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...And another item from the growing file of people who voluntarily wear dunce caps... You'll be talking cordially to someone and make an offhand reference, 'I recently read where--' and they'll cut you off and say, 'Oh, I don't read'... This is a tragedy on so many different levels. First, because they don't read, they don't know enough to keep it to themselves. Next, and this is the most amazing part, they use a demeaning tone like I'm the stupid one for wasting time with books.
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Book
Cutting
Stupid
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