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I don't think I'd want Mickey Mouse pimping for me anyway.

I began to think I quite liked her really. It's always so nice to meet someone more badly behaved th...

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Helen FieldingBridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

I wanted to become an atheist but I gave it up. They have no holidays.

The news that Daisy Miller was surrounded by half a dozen wonderful mustaches checked Winterbourne's...

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I once met an RAF pilot who told me of what he called a "bird strike". This, rather unfairly in my v...

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Hugh LaurieThe Gun Seller

All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought they could buy Peace and Understanding for thre...

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The reefer butt is called a 'roach' because it resembles a cockroach… cockroach… cockroach…

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Hunter S. ThompsonFear and Loathing in Las Vegas

How many more nights and weird mornings can this terrible shit go on? How long can the body and the ...

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Hunter S. ThompsonFear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Living on pills, phone calls unmade, people unseen, pages unwritten, money unmade, pressure piling u...

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Well," he said. "I hope to God I never make forty -- I wouldn't know what to do with myself.

He was staring hard, not at his wife and me but at his daughter watching us. In his cold pupil, in t...

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Italo CalvinoIf on a Winter's Night a Traveler

You are an old pig!'one of them said to the other. 'And that is worse than being a young one.

Her sample drawings were clipped, rather subordinately, to her photograph. All of them were arrestin...

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J. D. SalingerDe Daumier-Smith's Blue Period

The one that sang, old Janine, was always whispering into the g***** microphone before she sang. She...

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J. D. SalingerThe Catcher in the Rye

You’ve got to give the door something?’‘Yes,’ said Dumbledore. ‘Blood, if I am not much mistak

Don’t let it worry you," said Ron. "It’s me. I’m extremely famous.

The wand picks you, you don't pick the wand.

Ron: Why spiders? Why couldn't it be "follow the butterflies?

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Much as he detested Filch, Harry couldn't help feeling a bit sorry for him, though not nearly as sor...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Merlin's pants!

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Why are you worrying about you-know-who?You should be worrying about u-no-poo!The constipation sensa...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

The fireworks continued to burn and spread all over the school that afternoon. Though they caused pl...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Just because you’re allowed to use magic now you don’t have to whip your wands out for every tiny li...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Hermione: You! You foul loathsome evil little cockroach!

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Hermione: You! You foul, loathsome, evil little cocroach!Ron: Hermione, no! He's no worth it.

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Potter, you can skin Malfoy's shrivelfig.

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Hagrid: Harry -- yer a wizard.Harry: I'm a what?

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Ron: [mimicking Hermione] "It's Levi-OOOOH-sa not LevioSAR." She's a nightmare, honestly. It's no wo...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

And now leave me in peace for a bit! I don't want to answer a string of questions while I am eating....

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I may be a burglar...but I'm an honest one, I hope, more or less.

The only thing more difficult than persuading someone else to start having sex with you is persuadin...

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Choose old people for enemies. They die. You win.

Nixon’s offences had been so long in the past, so much part of a different era that he now seemed li...

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Jacob M. AppelThe Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up

Elsa's joke Where do baby apes sleep? In apricots!

Not a week after Annie put her foot in Mrs. Huffmaster's duff, the Captain upped and laid down the d...

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Those who do not complain are never pitied.

[Mrs. Allen was] never satisfied with the day unless she spent the chief of it by the side of Mrs. T...

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Jane AustenNorthanger Abbey

I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altoget...

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To exemplify, -a beautiful glossy nut, which, blessed with original strength, has outlived all the s...

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Obstinate, headstrong girl!

I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the ...

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Jane AustenSanditon: Jane Austen's Last Novel Completed

And here is my sweet little Annamaria,’ she added, tenderly caressing a little girl of three years o...

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Jane AustenSense and Sensibility

The lieutenant’s fooling around again with the telegraph girl at the station,” said the corporal, af...

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Jaroslav HašekThe Good Soldier Švejk

There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opp...

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He told us that it had been a fine day to-day, and we told him that it had been a fine day yesterday...

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Jerome K. JeromeThree Men in a Boat

I was the best man at the wedding. So why is she marrying him?

I am so busy doing nothing... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to s...

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Thomas has the kind of whiter-than-white boyish grin that makes women's panties spontaneously evapor...

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I'm going to use them to track him down and thwart him." "Thwart?" Sarissa asked."Thwart." I said. "...

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You have a visitor, my lord." I frowned, "What?" "That is why I came in here. You have a visitor wai...

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What's with that?” Butters screamed, his voice high and frightened. “Just covering his head with his...

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I poke at my skull with a finger. It didn't feel soft or anything. I didn't feel insane. But if you'...

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The demon trapped in the summoning circle screamed, slamming its crablike pincers against the unseen...

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Being here? With you? I've met my subconscious, and he's not that sick.

Seedy wasn't a fair description for the place, because seeds imply eventual regrowth and renewal.

Ease off the martyr throttle.

...as nervous as a bird in a coal mine.

Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that there isn't an invisible demo...

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I had about as much chance to do that as I did of backpacking my car to the top of Mount Rushmore.

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Jim ButcherProven Guilty

They'd paid some madman who thought he was a decorator a lot of money to make the place look hip and...

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Smiling always seems to annoy people more than actually insulting them. Or maybe I just have an anno...

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Billy squinted at me. "Why are you letting them go?""Because they're real.""How do you know?""The on...

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Jim ButcherSummer Knight

As far as the Council is concerned, the U.S. Wardens are a bunch of mushrooms.""Eh?""Kept in the dar...

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The Lord turned water into wine. All I'm suggesting is a trip to the grocery store.

For a time he read his Neil Diamond bible by the firelight. He paused, twisting nervously at his goa...

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The sound of an English accent distracted her and lifted her spirits. She associated English accents...

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For a time he read his Neil Diamond bible by the firelight. He paused, twisting nervously at his goa...

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The sound of an English accent distracted her and lifted her spirits. She associated English accents...

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There's something not quite Christian about it," Tony said. He sat back in his chair and looked up t...

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Joey ComeauBible Camp Bloodbath

If I wasn't a devil myself I'd give Me up to the Devil this very minute.

One of our professors described a lecture as 'a mystical process by which the notes on the pad of th...

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Graham Chapman, co-author of the "Parrot Sketch", is no more. He has ceased to be. Bereft of life, h...

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It is a curious fact that small boys are more terrified of their babysitters than small girls are. I...

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None are so busy as the fool and knave.

So it happened at last: I was about to become a thief, a cheap milk-stealer. Here was your lash-in-t...

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On the morning in question, she wore white shorts and a pink T-shirt that featured a green dragon br...

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There's no romance in geometry," Lindsey answered. "Just you wait.

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John Green (author)An Abundance of Katherines

I am concussed,' I announced, entirely sure of my self-diagnosis.''You're fine,' Takumi said as he j...

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She laughed. ''You seem pretty normal.''''You've never seen Ben snort Sprite up his nose and then sp...

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I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one.

Mr Kingsley begins then by exclaiming- 'O the chicanery, the wholesale fraud, the vile hypocrisy, th...

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Yes, he's an equal opportunity asshole," Szilard said. "And he's aware of it, which he thinks means ...

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John ScalziThe Ghost Brigades

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

A reputation for money is almost as negotiable as money itself.

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John SteinbeckThe Winter of Our Discontent

This is the sixty-nine," I told him, presenting the magazine in front of him. I put my fingers -- tw...

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Jonathan Safran FoerEverything Is Illuminated

I don't want to make sacrifices. I want to make dough.

wear flannel next to your skin, and never believe in eternal punishment.

[representative government is] deciding once in three or six years which member of the ruling class ...

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I was behaving, just like I promised, but fate intervened.

On Decoration Day, while everyone else in town was at the cemetery decorating the graves of our Glor...

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Another example of getting flack from the boys is what happened when Jack Black dumped me. That’s ri...

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If you have the choice between humble and cocky, go with cocky. There's always time to be humble lat...

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Lions and tigers and Funkyoid, oh my!

I know, I know. I rescued him and he’s bonded to me like a baby duck.

who me?"anita blake seriesby: Laurell K Hamilton

Bessie was News, Leaders, and Gossip; Enid was Features, Make-up and general Sub. Whenever they were...

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Lawrence DurrellEsprit de Corps: Sketches from Diplomatic Life

Himmlisch ist's wenn ich bezwungen Meine irdische Begier; Aber doch wenn's nich gelungen Hatt' ich a...

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There are worse things than eating the dead, my dear fellow. Far worse things. There is, for instanc...

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World opinion, though sharply divided on nuclear tests and the risk of atmospheric pollution, could ...

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