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"I wasn't particularly worried; running is overrated anyway, and sport only makes you sweaty and smug and wears out the knees."
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"A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it even if bad to a classic."
"I'd rather have a real South Dakotan who has lived in this state and made her living here instead of someone with a fancy East Coast law degree any day."
"I would like to see it go back to the wood racquets. To see the touch put back in tennis."
"I'll play first, third, left. I'll play anywhere - except Philadelphia."
"I like simple men and complicated women."
"There was interest from clubs in Italy and England, I believe. But I've never been attracted by the way they play in Italy. Staying in Spain was always my preference."
"Hope," Frank grumbled. "I'd rather have a few good weasels."
"I think I'd rather be liked than loved. It just seems as if more criticism and chastening is shown to those we love, while kind manners and compassion are reserved for those we simply like. So, I hope you like me."
"I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren't cute,& if they are cute they rapidly outgrow it."
"I try to avoid teaming up with goddesses who eat roadkill. It's one of my personal boundaries."
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"Believe me, you're going to have to do much worse than this--in the pursuit of freedom, the innocents will suffer--and at your hands."
"So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It's an interesting mix."
"But that was what research and development were like. Full of semi-triumphs and perplexing unforeseen consequences like the whole violent hiccuping thing when conjuring up fire - or the propensity for fillings to fall out of bystanders' teeth when attempting to tease a rainstorm out of a cloud."
"Edward, Edward," he said with a patronising smile, "there are no unanswered questions of any relevance. Every question that we need to ask has been answered fully. If you can't find the correct answer then you are obviously asking the wrong question."
"Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine of the literary world."
"Vanity's contribution to Fiction in general was an abundance of cheap labour and the occasional blockbuster, which was accepted into Fiction with an apologetic 'gosh, don't know how that happened'."
"Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature."
"I hope that in my books there's an undertone of politics, basic tenets of how we should live."
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