Switters was actually quite fond of Seattle's weather, and not merely because of it's ambivalence. He liked it's subtle, muted qualities and the landscape that those qualities encouraged if not engendered: vistas that seemed to have been sketched with a sumi brush dipped in quicksilver and green tea. It was fresh, it was clean, it was gently primal, and mystically suggestive.

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You are an ignorant schoolgirl. You think civilization is a good thing.

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Unfortunately, little darlings, there is no such thing as a simple love story.The most transitory puppy crush is complex to the extent of lying beyond the far reaches of the brain's understanding.

Tom Robbins

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Why," Tanuki grumbled, "would they fell trees but leave men standing? Trees are a damn sight more useful than people, and everything in the world knows that but people.

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Not naive,' Conch shell had corrected him. 'He simply has not been taught to fear the things you fear.

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O tequila, savage water of sorcery, what confusion and mischief your sly, rebellious drops do generate

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I'll follow him to the ends of the earth,' she sobbed. Yes, darling. But the earth doesn't have any ends. Columbus fixed that.

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Those who shun the whimsy in life will experience rigormortis before death.

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How can men be such lummoxes, such wads of chewing gum on our ballet slippers and still feel so good?

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The purpose of art is to provide what life does not.

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