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“I have a brother. They say, you put us together, we are like one person, you know? When we are young, his hair, it is very blond, very light, and people say, he is the good one. And my hair it is v...”
“You know, one time I saw Tiger down at the water hole: he had the biggest testicles of any animal, and the sharpest claws, and two front teeth as long as knives and as sharp as blades. And I said t...”
“It's easy, there's a trick to it, you do it or you die.”
“Suffering is sometimes cleansing, said the man. His clothes were casual, but expensive. It can purify."It can also fuck you up, said Shadow.”
“And then this whole deal of new gods, old gods," said his friend. "You ask me, I welcome new gods. Bring them on. The god of the guns. The god of bombs. All the gods of ignorance and intolerance, o...”
“What I say is, a town isnt a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless its got a bookstore, it knows its not foolin a soul.”
“Believe," said the rumbling voice. "If you are to survive, you must believe.""Believe what?" asked Shadow. "What should I believe?"He stared at Shadow, the buffalo man, and he drew himself up huge,...”
“This is a roadside attraction,' said Wednesday. 'One of the finest. Which means it is a place of power.”
“You know, he said. I think I would rather be a man than a god. We dont need anyone to believe in us. We just keep going anyhow. Its what we do. There was silence, in the high place.”
“I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating.”
“Liberty," boomed Wednesday, as they walked to the car, "is a bitch who must be bedded on a mattress of corpses.”
“Liberty is a bitch who must be bedded on a mattress ofcorpses.”
“Will you go back?" asked the Lord of the Gallows. "To America?""Nothing to go back for," said Shadow, and as he said it he knew it was a lie."Things wait for you there," said the old man. "But they...”
“Shadow was a couple of a hundred yards away from his motel, and he walked there, breathing the cold air, past red and yellow and blue lights advertising every kind of fast food a man could imagine,...”
“So, yeah, my people figured that maybe there's something at the back of it all, a creator, a great spirit, and so we say thank you to it, because it's always good to say thank you. But we never bui...”
“We all have so many functions, so many ways of existing. In my own vision of myself, I am a scholar who lives quietly, and pens his little tales, and dreams about a past that may or may not have ex...”
“He had kissed her good night that night, and she had tasted like strawberry daiquiris, and he had never wanted to kiss anyone else again.”
“Have you thought about what it means to be a god?" asked the man. He had a beard and a baseball cap. "It means you give up your mortal existence to become a meme: something that lives forever in pe...”
“My mom used to say, Life isnt fair, said Shadow.Of course she did, said Wednesday. Its one of those things that moms say, right up there with If all your friends jumped off a cliff would you do it ...”
“And I know an eighteenth charm, and that charm is the greatest of all, and that charm I can tell no man, for a secret that no one knows but you is the most powerful secret there can ever be.”
