How life did imitate art sometimes. And the cruder the art, the closer the imitation.

“But that's not a very original idea, is it? It's really just a platitude ... so…”

“If a book is not alive in the writer's mind, it is as dead as year-old horse-sh…”

“Había tenido ocasión de echar una buena mirada a su vida y había visto que todo…”

“Give me what I want and I will go away”