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“I'm being ironic. Don't interrupt a man in the midst of being ironic, it's not polite. There!”
― Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles

“You’re just the romantic age,” she continued- “fifty. Twenty-five is too worldly wise; thirty is apt to be pale from overwork; forty is the age of long stories that take a whole cigar to tell; sixty is- oh, sixty is too near seventy; but fifty is the mellow age. I love fifty.” - Hildegarde”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

“The blind inmates advanced like archangels surrounded by their own splendour.”
― José Saramago, Blindness

“My skin has turned to porcelain, to ivory, to steel.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords