The Incredible Winston Browne Quotes

“When you love someone, you trust them to hold your entire life in their hands, like a fragile object, like a vase, like crystal ware. When they leave you for another, they throw your vase against the floor. Vases are never vases after that. They can be reglued, but they won’t hold water.”
― Sean Dietrich, The Incredible Winston Browne

“Lisa was an uptight woman married to the oldest Baptist deacon in town who preached against the dangers of “premarital relations” with the opposite sex because this might lead to dancing.”
― Sean Dietrich, The Incredible Winston Browne

“A man spends a lifetime learning how to run the machine that is the human body, and just when he gets the hang of it, it breaks.”
― Sean Dietrich, The Incredible Winston Browne

“You want Reverend Davis to do it?” said Jimmy. “Good gracious,” said Eleanor. “No,” said Winston. “I don’t want him doing it. He doesn’t even know me. He just wouldn’t get it, he’s from New York.” “Connecticut,” said Tommy. “And he’s a big Dodgers fan.” Winston said, “Well, since you put it that way.”
― Sean Dietrich, The Incredible Winston Browne

“Winston stepped off the porch to greet them before anyone else. But Jimmy raced after him. Soon the two men were moving in a controlled but fierce footrace across the church lawn with bulletins flying from their hands, nudging innocent pedestrians and helpless elderly people out of the way. In the end, Jimmy won because Winston was in no shape to compete. When they reached Eleanor, both men were out of breath, and there was a long trail of church leaflets strewn behind them.”
― Sean Dietrich, The Incredible Winston Browne

“Anyone who can fog up a mirror can dance.”
― Sean Dietrich, The Incredible Winston Browne

“You cannot erase your own history,”
― Sean Dietrich, The Incredible Winston Browne

“Maybe he was a dashing bandleader whose fortune cookie once read, “You will meet a Methodist woman with chubby legs who makes great pies and owns, not one, but two very sassy but also modest bathing suits.”
― Sean Dietrich, The Incredible Winston Browne