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“We are all glamorous, some more so than others.”
― Iain Cameron Williams, The Empirical Observations of Algernon

“What did you do?” she hissed.
“Me?”
“Don’t be a dick,” she said.
“That ship has sailed. Hang on. We can’t fight yet. Where’s my hug?”
― Maureen Johnson, The Vanishing Stair

“Bridge depends on character. Your character and the character of your opponents. You must consider the character of your enemy. This is true of bomb disposal. It is two-handed bridge. You have one enemy. You have no partner. Sometimes for my exam I make them play bridge. People think a bomb is a mechanical object, a mechanical enemy. But you have to consider that somebody made it.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

“The house is two stories high and has seven rooms. It would have cost perhaps fifteen thousand in the early twenties when it was built.”
― Arthur Miller, The Penguin Arthur Miller: Collected Plays