"Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect."

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"Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect."

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"Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned-in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages?"

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"Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty."

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"So I figured I'd leave the area, because I had no ties there anyway except for this girl I was seeing. We had conflicting attitudes: I really wasn't into meditating and she wasn't really into being alive. I told her I knew when I was going to die because my birth certificate has an expiration date."

Existentialism

"If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny."

Thought

"If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?"

Paradox

"I put tape on the mirrors in my house so I don't accidentally walk through into another dimension."

Surrealism

"I went down the street to the 24-hour grocery. When I got there, the guy was locking the front door. I said, 'Hey, the sign says you're open 24 hours.' He said, 'Yes, but not in a row.'"

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"I got this powdered water - now I don't know what to add."

Now

"I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop, and I'm gone."

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"I installed a skylight in my apartment... the people who live above me are furious!"

People

"I bought some instant water one time but I didn't know what to add to it."

Time