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Ten-A-Fly took off his sunglasses as if they'd angered him. His scowl aimed for intimidation but seemed more in the neighborhood of constipation. "So

I stepped into the kitchen. I didn't close the door behind me. I wanted a quick escape in case . . . well, whatever. The

Ten-A-Fly began to perform what some might consider a "dance," though medical experts would probably classify it as a "seizure" or "devastating stroke." Yo

My client is trussed up like an S-and-M prop," Flair countered. "She's in no danger.

Then everything is copasetic," Fester said. "Except, well, without a camera, you can't do George Queller tomorrow. Don't worry. I'll find somebody else.

Continue with what?" Myron interrupted. Rule twenty-six of lawyering: Never let the interrogator—cop or fellow attorney—get a rhythm. "You asked her when she last saw her father. She told you.

Chance rose with as much dignity as he could muster, which was absolutely none, and skulked to the front of the bus. Arthur

Rusty's motto: Parties Are for Weekends, Not Politics.

Because the chief commodity a writer has to sell is his courage. And if he has none, he is more than a coward. He is a sellout and a fink and a heretic, because writing is a holy chore.

In my ugly, elitist opinion we are not all entitled to voice our opinions, we are entitled to pass along our informed opinions.

Ashamed apologies and a gentle thank you. I do not digress.

As one disillusioned ex-Trek official recently said, "You know why they cremated Gene? They were afraid people would come to piss on the grave.

Ellison's Theorem: the further right your position, the less telling your satire. A corollary of which is that you can't lampoon anywhere near where you stand, because you'd annihilate your own troops.

Calling a work of sufficient literary power either religious or secular is a political decision, not an aesthetic one.

The old-fashioned sins of reading is the only sense that matters.

It's just what Wendell Phillips said," she declared. "' The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.

Intellectual arses wobble the best.

Dill? Mm? Why do you reckon Boo Radleys never run off? Dill sighed a long sigh and turned away from me. Maybe he doesn't have anywhere to run off to

I try to give'em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason.

Atticus said naming people after Confederate generals made slow steady drinkers.

Where are your pants, son?

She was born in the Objective case.

About your writing with you left hand, are you ambidextrous, Mr. Ewell? I most positively am not, I can use one hand good as the other. One hand good as the other.

Aunty," she said, cordially, "why don't you go pee in your hat?