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"Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves, Confucius said. Revenge unstitches civilisation."

"To annoy or piss off are light offences. I'd say if you abuse the goodness of a novelist or a writer, the truth is, he or she can kill you multiple times or cannibalise you in many antagonist characters."

"I will hunt you down. I will scour the streets of Los Angeles for you. Search every street in the Republic if I have to. I will trick you and deceive you, lie, cheat and steal to find you, tempt you out of your hiding place, and chase you until you have nowhere else to run. I make you this promise: your life is mine."

"Forgetting of a wrong is a mild revenge."

"Revenge is like a poison in our heart before you know, it turns us into something ugly."
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"You think You're frightening me with Your hell, don't You? You think Your hell is worse than mine."


"Eternity is a ham and two people (also given as 'Eternity is two people and a ham') is an old quip from the days when a ham was huge-far more than two people could finish. Irma Rombauer mentions this line in her famous cookbook, The Joy of Cooking."


"I never see that prettiest thing-A cherry bough gone white with Spring-But what I think, 'How gay 'twould beTo hang me from a flowering tree."


"Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away."


"She realizes she doesn't know as much as God but feels she knows as much as God knew when he was her age."


"That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment."


"It costs me never a stab nor squirm / To tread by chance upon a worm. / Aha, my little dear, / I say, Your clan will pay me back one day."


"Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night."
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