Schlitz Quotes

On the morning of the best day of her life, Maude Flynn was locked in the outhouse singing 'the Battle Hymn of the Republic ~ Laura Amy Schlitz

If I had books, if I could scrape together an education, I'd have a future, whether any man ever asked me to marry him or not. ~ Laura Amy Schlitz

I think I would rather have a cat than a sweetheart, after all. They are less trouble, and even the handsomest sweetheart is sadly lacking in fur. ~ Laura Amy Schlitz

She cried because Muffet loved her and because Hyacinth didn't. ~ Laura Amy Schlitz

This feminine billboard of Middle-Eastern fashion stopped me on the street last month. She ran her hand over the seam of my jilbab, admiring the color and fabric. She only said a few words. 'We are living in a gender-quake, a modern sexodus. We have a duty to project dis female revolution in da way we dress. Come visit me at the Monkey Bar and tell me who tailors your outfits.' She's been my fashion role model ever since. ~ Michael Ben Zehabe

The girls who come into my library adore the prettiness of fairies, theminiature-ness. But they are also nature lovers and lovers of adventure
the future wild women of America. I couldn't help thinking that these little girls who love fairies deserve something lively. ~ Laura Amy Schlitz

My books promised me that life wasn't just made up of workday tasks and prosaic things. The world is bigger and more colorful and more important than that. ~ Laura Amy Schlitz

I'm not a feather to be tossed about. ~ Laura Amy Schlitz

Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more. ~ A. E. Hotchner

I think I'd like to be beautiful and heartless for a while, just to see what it's like. ~ Laura Amy Schlitz

Maud, listen to me. It isn't wrong to be affectionate. And it isn't funny, either. ~ Laura Amy Schlitz

I could burn a forest down with these feelings--feelings desperate to erupt. Volcanic. A cauldron expanding with the fullness of longings, ready to scorch this backward little village. ~ Michael Ben Zehabe

You know how it is. Someone pretends to love you, and you give too much away. ~ Laura Amy Schlitz

Hold your head up! Throw you shoulders back! It's the cheapest way to tell the world you're somebody! ~ Laura Amy Schlitz

Beer: All real men drink a specific brand of cheap beer. While I was growing up, my stepfather, who was the manliness man on the planet, drank Schlitz tall boys. There
was no room in the fridge, so he just left them on the counter and drank them warm. One day I asked him why he drank Schlitz, and he said, "It's only 3.1 cents per
ounce. Beer is an acquired taste, so you might as well acquire a taste for cheap beer." That's some manly shit. ~ Forrest Griffin

You realize you are not alone when you write, and you start to write for the person who will read your words. I think that's a bad thing, but I'm not sure, because I do think of being an author someday, and authors have to commune with their readers. ~ Laura Amy Schlitz

The only weight I ever lifted weighed 24 ounces. It was a Schlitz. I always replaced my fluids. ~ Art Donovan