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Irvine Welsh
“You said, when we embarked on this great adventure together, that lots of laughter was essential in a relationship.
I agreed.
You also made the point that a great deal of sex was of equal importance.
Again, I agreed. Wholeheartedly.
In fact I remember your exact words: laughter and sex are the barometers of a relationship. This was the statement you made, if I remember correctly.
Don't get me wrong. I couldn't agree more. But no at the same time, ya fuckin cow.”
Irvine Welsh, The Acid House

Robert Munsch
“Clang Clang Rattle Bing Bang, Gonna make my noise all day!”
Robert N. Munsch, Mortimer

Robert Penn Warren
“All right,” I said, and wrote in my notebook, Abe Lincoln type. I didn’t have to remind myself about that. I just wrote because I had got in the habit. You can build up an awful lot of habits in six years, and you can fill an awful lot of little black books in that time and put them in a safety-deposit box when they get full because they aren’t something to leave around and because they would be worth their weight in gold to some parties to get their hands on. Not that they ever got their hands on them. A man’s got to carry something besides a corroded liver with him out of that dark backward and abysm of time, and it might as well be the little black books. The little black books lie up there in the safety-deposit box, and there are your works of days and hands all cozy in the dark in the little box and the world’s great axis grinds.”
Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men

Max Nowaz
“One thing I have learnt is that you may do a lot of evil things, but if you are ever afforded a chance to be good, then you should take it. You will feel better about yourself.”
Max Nowaz, The Polymorph

“Laugh if you will, My queen, but let me be a woman still. You fairies love where love is wise and just; We mortal women love because we must:”
Thomas Malory, King Arthur Collection

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