Camels Quote by Spalding Gray

“I refer to jet lag as 'jet-psychosis - there's an old saying that the spirit cannot move faster than a camel.”

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Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel.

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Rich folks may ride on camels, but it ain't so easy for 'em to see out of a needle's eye.

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Death is a black camel, which kneels at the gates of all.

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Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent; water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious.

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My heart has become capable of every form: It is a pasture for gazelles And a monastery for Christian monks, And the pilgrim's Ka'ba,…

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“I want to spit back at a camel and ask him what he's so sour about. Maybe camels are the real 'Old Ones' on…

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It's the camel's nose in the tent. Look at Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Mao Zedong, Pol Pot, Idi Amin--every one of these monsters, on seizing…

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You'd think that would have been forgotten long ago. But no, no sooner has a little grass grown over it than some clumsy camel…

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Sybil's female forebears had valiantly backed up their husbands as distant embassies were besieged, had given birth on a camel or in the shade…

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