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Don't be so damned patronizing. Your performance so far has been a little less than dazzling. I didn't mean no harm, I said and kissed her. That a new dress? Ah! Changing the subject, you coward.

I first heard Personville called Poisonville by a red-haired mucker named Hickey Dewey in the Big Ship in Butte. He also called his shirt a shoit.

He's cute, I said. Uh-huh, the grey man agreed, and so's dynamite.

He's the guy that the joke was wrote about: 'Is he a criminal lawyer?' 'Yes, very.

he always got a lot of fun of acting like the other half of a half-wit ? Dashiell Hammett, The Dain Curse, ch XX

Cairo: You have always, i must say, a smooth explanation ready. Spade: What do you want me to do? Learn to stutter?

Asta jumped up and punched me in the belly with her front feet.

We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.

WILLIAMS: The phrase, of course, is a variation of a line from the song MacArthur Park. Any idea why the terrorists picked that particular song, Elizabeth? BURGER: Brian, one theory is that it was chosen specifically to demoralize the United States, because it gets stuck in your head and everybody hates it.

I'm not saying all the women were hot. Some of them, if they fell overboard, they'd be harpooned by Japs.

This is the funniest book I've ever held in my hands. --Dave Barry, Pulitzer Prize winning humorist and author says about Radical Sabbatical

Now, if Richard Nixon had claimed something like that you would at least have had the comfort of knowing he was lying. You could trust Nixon that way.

bigger of the two. He had a nose wart the size and shape of a small mushroom.

And it ain't a man, thought Slank.

ME: HOW MUCH WOULD WE RAISE IF EVERYBODY PAID $8.95 IN TAXES? ROUGHLY. COMPUTER: SYNTAX ERROR. ME: NO, A SYNTAX ERROR WOULD BE "ME HIT COMPUTER IN SCREEN WITH BIG ROCK." COMPUTER: ROUGHLY $2 BILLION. ME: THANK YOU.

A. Yes, that's what I say, but my son claims he knows of mice named Tom. COMPUTER: HA HA! WHAT A CRETIN.

Dan nodded emphatically, as if his mouth had just uttered, independently, something that his ears found quite profound.

No man should have to endure another man quoting poetry.

It's a reprehensible idea that seems, on the surface, virtuous." "That describes almost everything the Every does.

Unicycle?! came the quick reply. I'm diabetic!

I just said, 'I hope she can get by with a salary of sixty thousand dollars.' 

And now it is boring; here in Tanzania, she is bored. She will die of a crushing monotony before she even has a chance at a high-altitude cerebral edema. —

As we walked down the boardwalk at the beach, I asked Jordan about his uptick in personal style. It turns out it was one of his 12 Rules for Life that didn't make the final edit. "Dress like the person you want to be," he told me. "I took it from Nietzsche. He once said 'every great man is an actor of his own ideal,' which means you have to act out whatever you want to be, then you'll become it.

As Walter E. Williams, a professor of economics from George Mason University, has previously said, the biggest problem among blacks is actually the weak family structure—not white people daring to procreate.