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“From the broken pickup grows a usable induction coil.”
– Billy-Bob Gautama

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“What you do is who you are.  Also, what you say.  And what you feel.  And what kind of truck you drive.”
– Billy-Bob Gautama

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“Never gamble for more money than the guy with the gun can afford to lose.”
– Billy-Bob Gautama

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“The duck flies up whether you got the shotgun ready or not, so you may as well have it ready.”
– Billy-Bob Gautama

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“Pro-active.  That’s a new word they made up.  It means you’re s’posed to scratch yourself before you start to itch.  Dang.”
– Billy-Bob Gautama

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“When you seek it, you cannot find it; prob’ly cuz you stuck it in that cupboard in the shed and put paint cans in front of it.”
– Billy-Bob Gautama

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“Truth appears  when the mind is empty.  That’s why I sleep so much.”
– Billy-Bob Gautama

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“Listen to the birds in the oak trees.  Watch a sunrise on the prairie.  Taste the air in an open field, at least when it don’t smell like manure.”
– Billy-Bob Gautama

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“When you’re deluded, every statement is an ulcer; when you’re enlightened, every word is wisdom; when you got a blister on your foot, every step’s a bitch.”
– Billy-Bob Gautama

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One day Frankie Dell was talking to Billy-Bob Gautama.  He said, “Goat, how old are you?”  “I’m forty-seven,” said Billy-Bob.  “Now, that can’t be right,” said Frankie.  “Last time I asked you, you said you were forty-seven, and that must have been at least two years ago.”  Billy-Bob shrugged and said, “You think I’d change [...]

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One day Billy-Bob Gautama and a monk were walking through a forest.  As they approached a stream, they saw a pretty young woman standing at the edge.  She explained that she was afraid to cross the stream, and so Billy-Bob picked her up, carried her across, and set her down on the other side.   A [...]

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“Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day.  Teach a man to fish, you’ll find that bastard right in your favorite spot.”
– Billy-Bob Gautama

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One day Billy-Bob Gautama was on the roof of his house, trying to fix a leak.  A stranger came up and called, “Say, can I ask you something?”  “Sure,” said Billy-Bob.  “Well,” said the man, “you have to come down here so I can ask you.”  Billy-Bob climbed down the ladder and said, “All right, [...]

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“To follow the Way, you must cast loose material things.  You must be at one with yourself, and give away the possessions that tie you to the world.  That shotgun’s nice, I’ll take it off your hands.”
– Billy-Bob Gautama

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“Hate never overcomes hate. Love overcomes hate. If you do not love your enemy, then your enemy controls you. In that case, brass knuckles may be useful.”
– Billy-Bob Gautama

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Inspired by a discussion on Making Light
As an agent phones
On a blue and white computer screen
A book completes its final scene
In the ghetto
And it’s author moans
Cause if there’s one thing he knows for sure
It’ll never win the Pulitzer
In the ghetto.
Poeple do I have to plead?
He wrote it to be fun to read
And there’s even [...]

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