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“You may not feel outstandingly robust, but if you are an average-sized adult you will contain within your modest frame no less than 7 X 10^18 joules of potential energy—enough to explode with the force of thirty very large hydrogen bombs, assuming you knew how to liberate it and really wished to make a point.”
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
“The knowledge of cooking does not come pre-installed in a vagina.”
― Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
― Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
“I can’t remember the last time I’ve enjoyed silence in an American theater. It’s easy to believe that our audiences spend the day saying nothing, actually saving their voices for the moment the picture begins.”
― Me Talk Pretty One Day
― Me Talk Pretty One Day
“I had a black belt in redneck pissed off bitch dirty fighting.”
― White Trash Zombie Gone Wild
― White Trash Zombie Gone Wild
“Like most fedora wearers, he had a lot of inexplicable confidence.”
― Modern Romance
― Modern Romance
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