Tim Dorsey Professions : Novelist Born : 1961 Browse All Authors Top 22 quotes by Tim Dorsey Relieve stress through hysterical screaming. Tim Dorsey stress-relieving hysterical stress 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) Tim Dorsey vision spiritual waiting 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 knives making-love culture I don't suffer from insanity. I can actually say that I enjoy it. Tim Dorsey enjoy suffering insanity Murder is such a charged word. You know how some people fixate and won't let things go? They're called cops. Tim Dorsey cop murder people A prosthetic leg with a Willie Nelson bumper sticker washed ashore on the beach, which meant it was Florida. Then it got weird. Tim Dorsey florida legs beach 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 second-best life-is dream There, I'm an artist. Thousands of women on ecstasy now want to have three-ways with me. Tim Dorsey three artist want 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. Tim Dorsey phones beer thinking It's only socialism if the money goes down, not up. Tim Dorsey socialism ifs 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. Tim Dorsey florida drug people Nothing builds confidence like live ammo. Tim Dorsey building-confidence ammo 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. Tim Dorsey storm math two ...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. Tim Dorsey cutting stupid book Almighty Father, please stop making jerks. Amen...Break! Tim Dorsey jerk break father 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. Tim Dorsey toxic citizens political 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. Tim Dorsey snacks different animal 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 gas-stations growing-up kids Always walk away from a fight. Then ambush. Tim Dorsey ambush walks fighting 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 noon july laughing Similar Authors Adam Johnson novelist Ivan Goncharov novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum novelist Bruce Jay Friedman novelist Buchi Emecheta novelist Bryce Courtenay novelist All Authors
