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“Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.”
― Jingo
― Jingo
“When bankers get together for dinner, they discuss Art. When artists get together for dinner, they discuss Money”
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“An hour ago Cutwell had thumbed through the index of The Monster Fun Grimoire and had cautiously assembled a number of common household ingredients and put a match to them.
Funny thing about eyebrows, he mused. You never really noticed them until they'd gone.”
― Mort
Funny thing about eyebrows, he mused. You never really noticed them until they'd gone.”
― Mort
“I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.”
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“Kilgore Trout once wrote a short story which was a dialogue between two pieces of yeast. They were discussing the possible purposes of life as they ate sugar and suffocated in their own excrement. Because of their limited intelligence, they never came close to guessing that they were making champagne.”
― Breakfast of Champions
― Breakfast of Champions
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