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“Talk. We are going to talk first. I want to see you smile and laugh. I want to know what your favorite show was when you were a kid and who made you cry at school and what boy band you hung posters of on your wall. Then I want you naked in my bed again.”
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“In this state, dig it, you get twenty years for sale of dope to a minor. You only get five to ten for manslaughter. So like, the thing is, if you're selling to a kid and cops come, shoot the kid real quick!”
Source : "Chicago". Record on the spoken word album "Wake Up America!", 1971.
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“Reality is like a fruitcake; pretty enough to look at but with all sorts of nasty things lurking just beneath the surface.”
Source : A. Lee Martinez (2006). “Gil's All Fright Diner”, p.184, Macmillan
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“Quiet descended, a silence so consuming that even the drafty corridors ceased whistling. Bog wasn't certain where to look, so he solved the problem by plucking out his eyes and sticking them in a drawer.”
Source : A. Lee Martinez (2006). “Gil's All Fright Diner”, p.277, Macmillan
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“There have been predictions that the world will come to an end on 21.12.12. But I look around me and I see so much scope for hope.”
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“Louis de Bernires is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh. . .he has only to look into his world, one senses, for it to rush into reality, colours and touch and taste.”
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“Denzel Washington is someone I look up to.”
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“If you would look up bad labor relations in the dictionary, you would have an American Airlines logo beside it.”
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“If you can look up, you can get up.”
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“Great wits, like great beauties, look upon mere esteem as a flat insipid thing; nothing less than admiration will content them.”
Source : Jeremiah Seed (1763). “Discourses on several important subjects: To which is added, Eight sermons preached at the Lady Moyer's lecture, in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, London”, p.130
