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Erma Bombeck

"My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?"

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"My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?"

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"I realized, when I saw the forest burning, how fascinating the firelight is. It's beautiful, and people stare at it, don't they? It destroys and kills people, but humans love it. Is it because they crave their own destruction, Sam? I want to understand your kind. I am going out into the wider world, and I must learn."

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"There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism."

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"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course."

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"My pamphlet did not set the Torrens on fire."

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"I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me."

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"Playing to me, in those years, sounded like a house on fire."

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"Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit."

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"Must all of them and their families be physically abolished? Of course not? They must be 'liquidated' or melted in the hot fire of exile and labor into the proletarian masses."

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"If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience."

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"What a couple. I'm consumed into ashes. And he's always raking up the ashes and setting them on fire again."

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