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“I wouldn't even dare read the Torah, let alone attempt a witty observation on the Torah.”
“I'm an angel. The horns are only there to hold up the halo.”
“Childhood friends are continuity, uninterrupted connections between selves, and you hold on them. You hold on them and you love them, but sometimes they're not quite comfortable.”
“He was as obsequious as a Japanese ivy plant. Wringing his hands as if he hoped to squeeze the milk of human kindness from his fingernails, ...”
“The movie that changed my life,' he liked to say, by which he meant that it had changed his wardrobe.”
“How unlucky that you should have a reasonable answer to give, and that I should be so reasonable as to admit it!”
“If the Good Lord had intended us to crawl, he'd have given us a hundred legs and an exosqueleton.”
“Actually, the situation was intolerable. But then it was surprising how much intolerableness a man could tolerate.”
“You been mud wrestling..?' 'Only with my conscience.' 'Really? Who won?' 'Well, it was one of those rare occasions when violence really doesn't solve anything.”
“Fancy 'avin' to say you work for the Murder Squad, eh, Miss? Don't exactly warm folk to you, does it?”
“A technicality I'm prepared to hide wildly behind.”
“He didn't even know how to talk about it. He had practiced not talking about the things he knew until no man could be called his equal.”
“You noticed that I wore this outfit twice? Why, the only thing you wear twice is a sour expression.”
“My mistakes are usually so enjoyable that I tend torepeat them.”
“She charmed and sparkled and said witty things, but she knew very well she was being charming and sparkling and witty while she was doing it, which somehow felt wrong.”
“Talking to them was like being placed into conversational purgatory, with no hope of being released without significant damage to one's self-esteem.”
“Kiss me, and you'll live forever. You'll be a frog, but you'll live forever.”
“At least as coherent as the Gettysburg Address backwards in Albanian, anyway.”
“It is, in the imagination of combat's fans, the divinely listless loveplay that follows the orgasm of victory. It is called 'mopping up.”
“But life is not like that. You are not an airline. You can't remove a single olive from every salad served in first class and save one point two million dollars.”
