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It was a rather dreadful thought but somehow comforting.

I could look at stationers' shops for ever and ever. Rose says they are the dullest shops in the world except, perhaps, butchers'. (I don't see how you can call butchers' shops dull; they are too full of horror.)

Mrs. Fox-Cotton said that was no book for little girls, I told him. It's no book for little vicars, he said, chuckling.

And I knew with total certainty that a protection factor of fifteen was the highest level of sunblock scientifically possible. Now they were selling me a thirty.

I like your mother. You have your mother's breasts. Her breasts. Great stand-up tits. he said

How stupid these people were, coming into my office unarmed.

She means everything literally. Don't kid yourself about that lady. She means everything literally.

Even at a distance, her mouth showed the small pursed conceit of a remark in the making.

He was a regulator first-class, which was another term for metalworker unskilled.

Of course you know. You're brilliant. Everyone says so. What else can they say? I do neurochemistry. No one knows what that is.

When someone asks whether they have bourbon, the bartender says smugly, 'Yes, of course, James Beam, very good.' Ã¢â'¬Â "James Beam. That is

Let me say about Molly. If bullshit was music, she'd be a brass band.

What can it do in terms of worst-case scenario contingencies?' 'Cause a person to die.' 'Speak English for God's sake. I despise this modern jargon.

Why does this make you proud to be an American?" "The infant's brain develops in response to stimuli. We still lead the world in stimuli.

He and Kennedy were partners. The figure of the gunman in the window was inextricable from the victim and his history.

Popular Mechanics, Iowa

justice...is not inherent in the universe and what man has put there he uses when he uses it at all strictly for his own purposes the world is so sad that the only way to live with it is to laugh at it

At least my computer allows flexibility in type size; most do not.

Yes, the saint was underrated quite a bit, then, mostly by people who didn't like things that were ineffable… …a lot of people don't like things that are unearthly, the things of this earth are good enough for them, and they don't mind telling you so. "If he'd just go out and get a job, like everybody else, then he could be saintly all day long…" —from "The Temptations of St. Anthony," by Donald Barthelme

mead for my men!

Dan keeps telling Snow White that Christmas is coming! How can he be killed most easily? With the fewest stains?

All men that are ruined are ruined on the side of their natural propensities, the note concludes. This is surely true. Yet the vivacity with which he embraces ruin is unexampled, in my experience.

Do you feel that the creation of new modes of hysteria is a viable undertaking for the artist of today? Yes ( ) No ( )

City Action. Al is a true Damon Runyon character