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E. L. Doctorow

"It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."

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"It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."

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"I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I'm the only one moving."

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"What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?"

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"Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments."

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"My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car."

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"Divorced men are more likely to meet their car payments than their child support obligations."

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"I had to stop driving my car for a while... the tires got dizzy."

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"The idea that maybe you don't have to own a car if you only need one occasionally may catch on, just like time-sharing caught on in real estate."

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"Going to church doesn't make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car."

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"You don't have to worry about whether the car is set up right or not, you know it is, and it's down to you. Ultimately, that's what every driver wants."

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