Quotes by Tim Dorsey

About Tim Dorsey:

Tim Dorsey is an American novelist, frequently compared to Dave Barry and Carl Hiaasen (who both had cameo appearances in his first book, Florida Roadkill). Dorsey's books are crime capers in the Florida style pioneered by John D. MacDonald.
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Do you think heaven's like that? Could be worse, said Serge. You know all those pushy people who keep telling us we're not going to heaven? It could be full of them instead.

Tim Dorsey

Look forward to the wonderment of growing up, raising a family and driving by the gas station where the popular kids now work.

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Always walk away from a fight. Then ambush.

Tim Dorsey

Don't make fun of people who are different. Unless they have more money and influence. Then you must

Tim Dorsey

Nothing builds confidence like live ammo.

Tim Dorsey

But you have to understand, mental illness is like cholesterol. There is is good kind and the bad. Without the good kind- less flavor to life. Van Gogh, Beethoven, Edgar Allen Poe, Sylvia Plath, Pink Floyd (the early Piper at the Gates of Dawn line u...

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First, they set the hook with mind-bending kinky shit. Then a year later you're living in a Talking Heads song, dressed like Teddy Ruxpin, living with a strange woman in a big house full of frilly throw pillows, experiencing the frequency of sex that...

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Nature's what it's all about, but our people have been brainwashed into thinking that life is a cell phone against your head and the TV on a beer commercial with hot chicks.

Tim Dorsey

...And another item from the growing file of people who voluntarily wear dunce caps... You'll be talking cordially to someone and make an offhand reference, 'I recently read where--' and they'll cut you off and say, 'Oh, I don't read'... This is a tr...

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An ax came through the door. Then two firefighters. They looked down at and assistant mall manager crying and wearing a melted toupee, sitting cross-legged next to a mall cop with a bleeding ankle and a mouth full of paper. One of the firefighters lo...

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Author Bio

  • NameTim Dorsey
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • Born1961
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionNovelist