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Had Solomon ever met with Al Capone? Yes. Longy Zwillman? Yes. Moe Dalitz? Yes again. 'But,' Solomon said, 'I have also met with Joan Miro and George Bernard Shaw, but I am neither a painter nor a writer. I have talked with your brother in Ottawa more than once and I am not a bigot.'

...his faith provided for all contingencies save that of the Arctic adherent. In the years to come, followers of Ephraim's who wandered too far north in search of seal in October soon discovered that they were in bad trouble. Once the sun went down they were obliged to remain celibate and fast until it rose once more several months later, not sinking below the horizon again for many more months.

Do you think Paris would have abducted Helen if she hobbled or, if he had been so blind, that Menelaus wouldn't have said good riddance, leaving Troy intact? Consider Calypso. If she had suffered from an infirmity such as mine, surely Odysseus, far from being detained, would have put his shoulders to the oars. Or imagine what the two families would have been spared if Romeo and Juliet had seen Juliet lurching onto

Jesus was not a hero, Mr. Gursky. He is Our Savior.

God damn right he is. I meant no disrespect.

Those who do not accept Him can never enter the Kingdom of Heaven.

Or the Manitoba Club, you little rat, Mr. Bernard thought, but never mind.

As interprovincial liquor trade was still allowed, Bernard acquired a mail-order house in in a small town in Ontario, and Morrie became a distributor of something called Rock-a-Bye Cough Cure, which enjoyed an understandably huge sale.

...she played her scenes like an overwrought Shirley Temple with a disconcertingly gay Peter Van Daan. When that didn't work, she switched to Elizabeth Taylor of National Velvet.

"There are so many lies being told about Bernard Gursky already, somebody should be hired to listen to the truth from me and write my biography."
"I was thinking the same thing, Mr. Bernard."
"For this job I don't want a Canadian. I want the best. The hell with the expense."
"I could consult Becky and draw up a list of names."
"What about Churchill, who wrote his stuff?"
"He did, Mr. Bernard."