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"Statistically, if Adam talks enough, he has to hit on some truth every now and
again. A broken clock is accurate twice a day."
- Joel to Maurice, about Adam's talking-tree story

"Marilyn is a whole new universe of silence. I mean, we're talking a silence so cold, so relentlessly powerful, it actually sucks all the sounds out of the air. It's like being vibed into a black hole. You're out in space alone with this galactic VORTEX of disapproval."
- Joel

Joel: Basically, we all belong to the same big tribe.
Ed: That's true..... but you can't hang out with 5 billion people.

Joel: Is that the cow you're going to fling?
Chris: Well, I thought so. From a distance she's very engaging, but you get to know her and there's a certain wrongness about her.
Joel: A wrongness? You mean...
Chris: Yeah, as in not rightness.
Joel: You realize that by flinging this cow, you're going to break every bone in it's body?
Chris: Yeah.
Joel: And the purpose of this is?
Chris: Create a pure moment.

"And then they hurl this cow right at the castle with a catapult. POW!"
- Ed tells Chris about Monty Python

Ed: You're not going to fling the cow now?
Chris: What's the point, it's already been flung.

"We all come from the place we're from and, well, we really can't be from
anywhere else and that's where I'm from."
- Ed accepts his lifetime achievement award

"I've been here now for some days, groping my way along, trying to realize my
vision here. I started concentrating so hard on my vision that I lost
sight. I've come to find out that it's not the vision, it's not the vision at
all. It's the groping. It's the groping, it's the yearning, it's the moving
forward. I was so fixated on that flying cow that when Ed told me Monty Python
already painted that picture, I thought I was through. I had to let go of that
cow so I could see all the other possibilities. Anyway, I want to thank
Maurice for helping me to let go of that cow. Thank you Maurice for playing
Apollo to my Dionysus in art's Cartesian dialectic. And thanks to you, Ed,
cause the truth shall set us free! And Maggie, thank you for sharing in the
destruction of your house so that today we could have something to fling. I
think Kierkegaard said it oh so well, 'The self is only that which it's in the
process of becoming.' Art? Same thing. James Joyce had something to say
about it too. 'Welcome, Oh Life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the
reality of experience, and to forge in the smythe of my soul the uncreated
conscious of my race.' We're here today to fling something that bubbled up
from the collective unconsciousness of our community. Ed, you about ready? The
thing I learned folks, this is absolutely key: It's not the thing you
fling. It's the fling itself. Let's fling something, Cicely!"
- Chris flings the piano

�Bernard, natural very on you looks! What mean I is, very looks natural you on, Bernard!�
- Chris welcomes Bernard

Holling: Yes, Jesse's in the cave. He's also high on the mountaintop, deep under the ocean, way out there in outerspace.
Shelly: Boy, oh boy, he sure gets around.
Holling: Yes, he does. No telling where you'll find Jesse. In the closet. In the dark at the top of the stairs. Under the bed. He's always somewhere. All we've got to do is gird our loins and go out looking for him.
- Holling to Shelly, after his search for Jessie the Bear

�Well, it's possible that after all these years and all those words you just need to get retracked. Like reformatting a hard disk. Error messages on your C: drive.�
- Bernard and Chris, on Chris's speech problem

"As you may know, I spent the last three months in Africa. A wondrous, magical place. But as shadows lengthen across the KBHR window, thoughts turn to homecoming. Journey's end. Because in a sense, it's the coming back, the return which gives meaning to the going forth. We really don't know where we've been until we've come back to where we were. Only, where we were may not be as it was because of who we've become. Which is, after all, why we left."
- Bernard on the air, filling in for Chris

"Six strong young men with sledgehammers and MEL'S GUNS and AMMO quickly becoming just a memory. Ask this brick. Who carted you here? Who stacked you one on top of the other, joined you with mortar? The brick won't talk. The builder remains anonymous like those unsigned cathedrals of Europe. See, this ediface was not built for an architect's glory. It was built with a vision in mind, a vision we call Cicely, Alaska. Are we less without mouths? Maybe not. You see, cities, countries, buildings--they all have a life cycle just like us humans. They come and they go. They're just sticks and stones. The spirit that infuses them, that's what really counts. As far as I'm concerned, the vision remains."
- Chris on the demolition of a store

"People ought to change careers every couple of decades or so. It keeps things
fresh."
- Holling, about Larry Coe leaving golf

"What's the problem? The problem is, all my life I've been rebelling against something that didn't exist."
- Maggie to Ruth-Anne

"I'm 63 years old. My life is half over. This must be what people call a mid-life crisis."
- Holling to Joel

"If you're Rick, bark three times."
Woof, woof, woof.
- Maggie to "Rick" the dog

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