Michael Poore > 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.”
― Michael Poore, Reincarnation Blues

“Flying with Death was like being in a sleeping bag with a sensuous woman and a tarantula.”
― Michael Poore, Reincarnation Blues

“Your soul will be canceled like a dumb TV show.”
― Michael Poore, Reincarnation Blues

“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.”
― Michael Poore, Reincarnation Blues

“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”
― Michael Poore, Reincarnation Blues

“Perfection is being happy with what you are right now.”
― Michael Poore, Reincarnation Blues

“It was yesterday, or it was a thousand years ago. There wasn’t really a difference. Time was a swamp inside a giant washing machine.”
― Michael Poore, Reincarnation Blues

“Shrug. “Everyone knows the Devil’s an American.”
― Michael Poore, Up Jumps the Devil

“I was an awesome cricket.”
― Michael Poore, Reincarnation Blues

“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.”
― Michael Poore, Reincarnation Blues

“It's something a wise man or a wise woman knows how to do: shake off your self pity and your obsession, and put one foot in front of the other and keep moving.”
― Michael Poore, Reincarnation Blues

“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.”
― Michael Poore, Reincarnation Blues

“Sometimes superheroes are regular people, and there are millions of them, typing away at their keyboards.”
― Michael Poore, Reincarnation Blues

“The trouble with problem solving,” Aldrin often complained, “is that too many people are making money off the problems.”
― Michael Poore, Reincarnation Blues

“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.”
― Michael Poore, Reincarnation Blues

“He was, perhaps, the crappiest meditator in the world. But he noticed this, accepted it, and let it humble him. Humility was one of the things that made him a wise man.”
― Michael Poore, Reincarnation Blues

“Death was a door. You went through it over and over, but it still terrified people.”
― Michael Poore, Reincarnation Blues

“I was caught right away. But in this particular village, when someone did something destructive, they gathered around him or her in a circle and told stories of all the good things he had done in his life. Hardly anyone ever committed a second crime.”
― Michael Poore, Reincarnation Blues

“Her yaşam sana bir şeyler öğretir. Öğrenip büyüyebilmen ve sonunda kusursuzluğa ulaşman için fırsatlar sunar. Bunun için binlerce hayat yaşaman gerekebilir.”
― Michael Poore, Reincarnation Blues

“Onlara zaman ve biraz huzur verdiğinizde, insanların çoğu zekalarını kullanabiliyordu.
İnsanların sürekli korku ya da ve öfke içinde olmadığı bir dünya verdiğinizde.”
― Michael Poore, Reincarnation Blues

“And eventually the idea came. It wasn't brilliant or complicated or new. It was just perfect for that particular place and time.”
― Michael Poore, Reincarnation Blues

“Büyük bir taş bulursun ve bitkinin filizlendjği yerin yakınına koyarsın. Bitkiyi sulayacağın zaman suyu doğrudan toprağa değil, taşın üzerine dökersin. Böylece su saksının içine yavaşça yayılır ve bitkinin köklerine zarar vermez.”
― Michael Poore, Reincarnation Blues

“God is good," said Akram.
"Fuckin' A," said Milo.”
― Michael Poore, Reincarnation Blues

“God, he thought, when you loved someone, every day was Opposite Day. Being with them made you feel weak and also strong. They made you want to laugh and cry. Get dressed up and get undressed. You wanted to keep them forever and eat them like a bucket of cheese fries.”
― Michael Poore, Reincarnation Blues

“When he got to the afterlife, after that particular Polish life, Milo found that Suzie had a perfect copy of the entire pornography collection.
"You risked your life for this?" she asked.
The expressions on her face were dramatic and varied widely. Some of the drawings and photographs were quite surprising. Some of them involved ponies.
"When people try to destroy art or thought," Milo explained, "it makes all forms of art and thought valuable. It's a slippery slope once we start saying what people should or shouldn't use. It's a real evil, a thing with substance and power. I was helping to preserve people's chance to see and to choose."
"I see," she whispered. "I understand."
For a solid month, every time he turned around she had one of those books open.
"I'm fighting evil." she'd say.
"Rozumiem," he'd answer, in Polish. "I understand.”
― Michael Poore, Reincarnation Blues

“Ne derlerse desinler, geldiğimiz yer toprak değil. Sudan geliyoruz ve öldüğümüzde, bayır aşağı akan bir nehir misali, suya dönüyoruz.”
― Michael Poore, Reincarnation Blues

“Evil.
Sometimes it was something that stood up and announced itself clearly. Like the times when he was born a Muslim, and the Christians were evil, and the times he was born Christian, and the Muslims were evil. He thanked God , in those lives, for making it so obvious.”
― Michael Poore, Reincarnation Blues

“Hayvanlar gibi yaşamak yerine, dedi, burada uygarlık kurabilsek ne harika olurdu. İnsanların birlikte çalıştığı, birbirine iyi davrandığı gerçek bir uygarlık. Yaptıkları şeyleri dayak yeme ya da öldürülme korkusuyla değil de, hayattan zevk aldıkları için yaptıkları. İnsanın hayatta kalabilmek dışında, uğruna yaşayabileceği bir şeylere ihtiyacı var.; öteki türlüsü hayvanların işi. Bizim tekamül etmemiz gerekir.”
― Michael Poore, Reincarnation Blues

“Küfür ruhu karartır.”
― Michael Poore, Reincarnation Blues

“We have all the power!" interrupted Milo, with unusual force. "Because the cartels and their goons depend completely on us for work. The cartels could not exist if people didn't choose to work for them."
"We don't choose," said Fortheringay. "They force us."
"Force?" said Milo. "That's not possible. What are they going to do, come down here and move our arms and legs for us? They need us to do it ourselves, and we only do it because we are afraid. There's no force. That's fear, and it's a choice.”
― Michael Poore, Reincarnation Blues