Uh, excuse me, sir, I, uh, don't known how to uh, to uh, tell you this, but you were three minutes late. The schedule is a little, uh, bit off."
He grinned sheepishly.
"That's ridiculous!" murmured the Ticktockman behind his mask. "Check your watch." And then he went into his office, going mrmee, mrmee, mrmee, mrmee.

Harlan Ellison

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Pops added,"you know, they say if you don't vote, you get the government you deserve."
"And if you do, you never get the results you expected," (Katherine) replied.

E.A. Bucchianeri

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Theatres are curious places, magician's trick-boxes where the golden memories of dramtic triumphs linger like nostalgic ghosts, and where the unexplainable, the fantastic, the tragic, the comic and the absurd are routine occurences on and off the stage. Murders, mayhem, politcal intrigue, lucrative business, secret assignations, and of course, dinner.

E.A. Bucchianeri

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He would be a consul no doubt by and by, at some foreign port, of the language of which he was ignorant; though if ignorance of language were a qualification he might have been a consul at home.

Mark Twain

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As Samson demonstrated, going bald ruins lives.

Brendan Jack

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And it's really very difficult to kill someone when all your inner instincts would oblige you to take off your hat first!

Susan Kay

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-"He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful."

-"It was stupid.

Lloyd Alexander

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You know, you're rather amusingly wrong.

Terry Pratchett

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-Oh yes? Can you identify yourself?
-Certainly. I'd know me anywhere.

Terry Pratchett

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(About a cookbook...)
- What about this one? Maids of Honor?
- Weeelll, they starts OUT as Maids of Honor...but they ends up Tarts.

Terry Pratchett

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