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"Bad people? What kind of bad people? Members of the Church of Satan? Insurance salesmen? People who don't speak English?"
Wayne Gerard Trotman
"Bad people? What kind of bad people? Members of the Church of Satan? Insurance salesmen? People who don't speak English?"
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"Alas! with all her reasoning, she found, that to retentive feelings eight years may be little more than nothing."
Jane Austen
"Alas! with all her reasoning, she found, that to retentive feelings eight years may be little more than nothing."
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"Don't blame me. Tell your mom to move closer. Tell her there's this new club called civilization and you guys should join."
Becca Fitzpatrick
"Don't blame me. Tell your mom to move closer. Tell her there's this new club called civilization and you guys should join."
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"Historian: an unsuccessful novelist."
H. L. Mencken
"Historian: an unsuccessful novelist."
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"What all the ads and whoreoscopes seemed to imply was that if only you were narcissistic enough, if only you took proper care of your smells, your har, your boobs, your eyelashes, your armpits, your crotch, your stars, your scars, and your choice of Scotch in bars - you would meet a beautiful, powerful, potent, and rich man who would satisfy every longing, fill every hole, make your heart skip a beat (or stand still), make you misty, and fly you to the moon (preferably on gossamer wings), where you would live totally satisfied forever."
Erica Jong
"What all the ads and whoreoscopes seemed to imply was that if only you were narcissistic enough, if only you took proper care of your smells, your har, your boobs, your eyelashes, your armpits, your crotch, your stars, your scars, and your choice of Scotch in bars - you would meet a beautiful, powerful, potent, and rich man who would satisfy every longing, fill every hole, make your heart skip a beat (or stand still), make you misty, and fly you to the moon (preferably on gossamer wings), where you would live totally satisfied forever."
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"What did you bring me today? Delusional mutterings with a side of crazy?"
Marissa Meyer
"What did you bring me today? Delusional mutterings with a side of crazy?"
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"To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations."
Oscar Wilde
"To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations."
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"No matter what dimension you're in, there's a big-headed male trying to take over the world."
Eoin Colfer
"No matter what dimension you're in, there's a big-headed male trying to take over the world."
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"Oh, I'm not saying that alcohol is perfect. It has caused its share of problems. Russia is only one example."
Dave Barry
"Oh, I'm not saying that alcohol is perfect. It has caused its share of problems. Russia is only one example."
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"Outside the family circle, papa, I'm glad to say, is entirely unknown. I think that is quite as it should be. The home seems to me to be the proper sphere for the man."
Oscar Wilde
"Outside the family circle, papa, I'm glad to say, is entirely unknown. I think that is quite as it should be. The home seems to me to be the proper sphere for the man."
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"Mr. Mancini had a singular talent for making me uncomfortable. He forced me to consider things I'd rather not think about " the sex of my guitar, for instance. If I honestly wanted to put my hands on a woman, would that automatically mean I could play? Gretchen's teacher never told her to think of her piano as a boy. Neither did Lisa's flute teacher, though in that case the analogy was obvious. On the off chance that sexual desire was all it took, I steered clear of Lisa's instrument, fearing that I might be labeled a prodigy."
David Sedaris
"Mr. Mancini had a singular talent for making me uncomfortable. He forced me to consider things I'd rather not think about " the sex of my guitar, for instance. If I honestly wanted to put my hands on a woman, would that automatically mean I could play? Gretchen's teacher never told her to think of her piano as a boy. Neither did Lisa's flute teacher, though in that case the analogy was obvious. On the off chance that sexual desire was all it took, I steered clear of Lisa's instrument, fearing that I might be labeled a prodigy."
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"Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one's arms around a side of beef."
Tom Stoppard
"Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one's arms around a side of beef."
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"When shit becomes valuable, the poor will be born without assholes."
Henry Miller
"When shit becomes valuable, the poor will be born without assholes."
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"They were new money, without a doubt: so new it shrieked. Their clothes looked as it they'd covered themselves in glue, then rolled around in hundred-dollar bills."
Margaret Atwood
"They were new money, without a doubt: so new it shrieked. Their clothes looked as it they'd covered themselves in glue, then rolled around in hundred-dollar bills."
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"I've heard that men are like fine wine. They begin as grapes, and it's up to women to stomp the shit out of them until they turn into something acceptable to have dinner with."
Jill Shalvis
"I've heard that men are like fine wine. They begin as grapes, and it's up to women to stomp the shit out of them until they turn into something acceptable to have dinner with."
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"An imaginary friend once asked me why Americans can't stand Russia. The answer was cold, deadly, silent, and, well expected. It's because in Soviet Russia nothing happens anymore, because it doesn't exist anymore. And Americans are all about happenings. If there isn't one " they don't go where it isn't, because there isn't anything to happen to them there."
Will Advise
"An imaginary friend once asked me why Americans can't stand Russia. The answer was cold, deadly, silent, and, well expected. It's because in Soviet Russia nothing happens anymore, because it doesn't exist anymore. And Americans are all about happenings. If there isn't one " they don't go where it isn't, because there isn't anything to happen to them there."
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"You're still here. No beer. I'm not corrupting a minor." a minor," she pointed out. "At least for beer.""Yeah, and by the way, how much does it suck that I'm an adult if I kill somebody, and I'm not if I want a beer?"
Rachel Caine
"You're still here. No beer. I'm not corrupting a minor." a minor," she pointed out. "At least for beer.""Yeah, and by the way, how much does it suck that I'm an adult if I kill somebody, and I'm not if I want a beer?"
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"I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be...yours."
Jane Austen
"I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be...yours."
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"Canada is a myth people made up to entertain children, like the Tooth Fairy. There's no such place."
Christopher Moore
"Canada is a myth people made up to entertain children, like the Tooth Fairy. There's no such place."
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"The door of Reverend Verringer's impressive manse is opened by an elderly female with a face like a pine plank; the Reverend is unmarried, and has need of an irreproachable housekeeper. Simon is ushered into the library. It is so self-consciously the right sort of library that he has an urge to set fire to it."
Margaret Atwood
"The door of Reverend Verringer's impressive manse is opened by an elderly female with a face like a pine plank; the Reverend is unmarried, and has need of an irreproachable housekeeper. Simon is ushered into the library. It is so self-consciously the right sort of library that he has an urge to set fire to it."
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"Oh! what a silly Thing is Woman! How vain, how unreasonable!"
Jane Austen
"Oh! what a silly Thing is Woman! How vain, how unreasonable!"
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"A distinguished clergyman told me that he chose the profession of a clergyman because it afforded the most leisure for literary pursuits. I would recommend to him the profession of a governor."
Henry David Thoreau
"A distinguished clergyman told me that he chose the profession of a clergyman because it afforded the most leisure for literary pursuits. I would recommend to him the profession of a governor."
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"I'm joking when I say I'm the grand-pop of those claiming to be an avatar-messiah or god. But if they're serious, then, I am who I am."
Fakeer Ishavardas
"I'm joking when I say I'm the grand-pop of those claiming to be an avatar-messiah or god. But if they're serious, then, I am who I am."
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"The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last."
Oscar Wilde
"The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last."
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"They wouldn't even lift a finger to save their own grandmothers from the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal without orders signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighters."
Douglas Adams
"They wouldn't even lift a finger to save their own grandmothers from the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal without orders signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighters."
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"Satire is a lesson, parody is a game."
Vladimir Nabokov
"Satire is a lesson, parody is a game."
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"Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else."
Oscar Wilde
"Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else."
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"As you know, the International Poker Tour, by its own admission, knows very little about poker games, one of which ended tragically last week when an IPT-sanctioned tournament aboard a yacht in Australia accidentally used tarot cards instead of playing cards. That's right, it's true! Apparently no one noticed until someone laid down a full house and the dealer died."
Elle Lothlorien
"As you know, the International Poker Tour, by its own admission, knows very little about poker games, one of which ended tragically last week when an IPT-sanctioned tournament aboard a yacht in Australia accidentally used tarot cards instead of playing cards. That's right, it's true! Apparently no one noticed until someone laid down a full house and the dealer died."
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"And suddenly, from behind me, I hear the metaphysically abrupt arrival of the office boy. I feel like I could kill him for barging in on what I wasn't thinking. I turn around and look at him with a silence full of hatred, tense with latent homicide, my mind already hearing the voice he'll use to tell me something or other. He smiles from the other side of the room and says 'Good afternoon' in a loud voice. I hate him like the universe. My eyes are sore from imagining."
Fernando Pessoa
"And suddenly, from behind me, I hear the metaphysically abrupt arrival of the office boy. I feel like I could kill him for barging in on what I wasn't thinking. I turn around and look at him with a silence full of hatred, tense with latent homicide, my mind already hearing the voice he'll use to tell me something or other. He smiles from the other side of the room and says 'Good afternoon' in a loud voice. I hate him like the universe. My eyes are sore from imagining."
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"Now-a-days, men wear a fool's cap, and call it a liberty cap."
Henry David Thoreau
"Now-a-days, men wear a fool's cap, and call it a liberty cap."
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"Not all. Some of them he probably lectured to death."
Maggie Stiefvater
"Not all. Some of them he probably lectured to death."
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"New York is a sucked orange."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"New York is a sucked orange."
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"Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature."
Jasper Fforde
"Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature."
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"We're roughage," Tyger said. "If we don't cause a little intestinal distress, no one knows we're there."
Neal Shusterman
"We're roughage," Tyger said. "If we don't cause a little intestinal distress, no one knows we're there."
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"What are you doing in a fast lane, snail?"
Toba Beta
"What are you doing in a fast lane, snail?"
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"Shall I ask you how the church is to be filled, if a man is neither to take orders with a living, nor without?"
Jane Austen
"Shall I ask you how the church is to be filled, if a man is neither to take orders with a living, nor without?"
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"The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square."
Oscar Wilde
"The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square."
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"New Rule: Stop asking Miss USA contestants if they believe in evolution. It's not their field. It's like asking Stephen Hawking if he believes in hair scrunchies. Here's what they know about: spray tans, fake boobs and baton twirling. Here's what they don't know about: everything else. If I cared about the uninformed opinions of some ditsy beauty queen, I'd join the Tea Party."
Bill Maher
"New Rule: Stop asking Miss USA contestants if they believe in evolution. It's not their field. It's like asking Stephen Hawking if he believes in hair scrunchies. Here's what they know about: spray tans, fake boobs and baton twirling. Here's what they don't know about: everything else. If I cared about the uninformed opinions of some ditsy beauty queen, I'd join the Tea Party."
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"Nobody's perfect. Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him...."
Christopher Moore
"Nobody's perfect. Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him...."
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"Yeah, okay. You're right. I was having dinner with Zombie Carl the other night. You know, steak, rare, and a bottle of vintage type A. He told me all his secrets, but too bad for you I promised him I wouldn't tell. In exchange I asked him to gather his best undead buddies and stalk me through my friend's yard. And oh, yeah, it was totally fine if they wanted to use me as an all-night-dinner buffet, because having organs is SO last year."
Gena Showalter
"Yeah, okay. You're right. I was having dinner with Zombie Carl the other night. You know, steak, rare, and a bottle of vintage type A. He told me all his secrets, but too bad for you I promised him I wouldn't tell. In exchange I asked him to gather his best undead buddies and stalk me through my friend's yard. And oh, yeah, it was totally fine if they wanted to use me as an all-night-dinner buffet, because having organs is SO last year."
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"Please consult your child's Witch doctor before using this product. Diapers may cause severe allergies, internal bleeding, and irreversible sex change."
Kenya Wright
"Please consult your child's Witch doctor before using this product. Diapers may cause severe allergies, internal bleeding, and irreversible sex change."
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"Piracy n: commerce without its folly-swaddles - just as God made it."
Ambrose Bierce
"Piracy n: commerce without its folly-swaddles - just as God made it."
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"Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality."
Oscar Wilde
"Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality."
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"Silena appeared out of the woods, her sword drawn. Her Aphrodite armour was pink and red, colour coordinated to match her clothes and makeup. She looked like Guerilla Warfare Barbie."
Rick Riordan
"Silena appeared out of the woods, her sword drawn. Her Aphrodite armour was pink and red, colour coordinated to match her clothes and makeup. She looked like Guerilla Warfare Barbie."
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"We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it."
Ayn Rand
"We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it."
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"That's why Credit card companies are evil. Are they sponsoring the show tonight? ... They are Evil."
Craig Ferguson
"That's why Credit card companies are evil. Are they sponsoring the show tonight? ... They are Evil."
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"Kools and Newports were for black people and lower-class whites. Camels were for procrastinators, those who wrote bad poetry, and those who put off writing bad poetry. Merits were for sex addicts, Salems were for alcoholics, and Mores were for people who considered themselves to be outrageous but really weren't."
David Sedaris
"Kools and Newports were for black people and lower-class whites. Camels were for procrastinators, those who wrote bad poetry, and those who put off writing bad poetry. Merits were for sex addicts, Salems were for alcoholics, and Mores were for people who considered themselves to be outrageous but really weren't."
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"I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do."
Henry David Thoreau
"I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do."
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"On the Kite, the situation was being 'workshopped'. This is the means by which people who don't know anything get together to pool their ignorance."
Terry Pratchett
"On the Kite, the situation was being 'workshopped'. This is the means by which people who don't know anything get together to pool their ignorance."
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"New York: A third-rate Babylon."
H. L. Mencken
"New York: A third-rate Babylon."
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