A case of the tail dogging the wag.
A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didn't know enough to stay in the city.
Fate was dealing from the bottom of the deck.
For years I have let dentists ride roughshod over my teeth; I have been sawed, hacked, chopped, whittled, bewitched, bewildered, tattooed, and signed on again; but this is cuspid's last stand.
I don't know where we're going or how we'll get there, but when we get there we'll be there- and that's something, even if it's nothing.
I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone.
I guess I'm just an old mad scientist at bottom. Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a beautiful girl in a diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee, and I care not who writes the nation's laws.
I have no truck with lettuce, cabbage, and similar chlorophyll. Any dietitian will tell you that a running foot of apple strudel contains four times the vitamins of a bushel of beans.
I loathe writing. On the other hand I'm a great believer in money.
I loved him like a brothel.
I'd horsewhip you if I had a horse.
I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started off living on gruel, and by God, I can always go back to it again.
I've got Bright's Disease and he's got mine.
If, at the close of business each evening, I myself can understand what I've written, I feel the day hasn't been totally wasted.
In France... accidents occur in the bedroom, not the kitchen.
In pulp fiction it is a rigid convention that the hero's shoulders and the heroine's balcon constantly threaten to burst their bonds, a possibility which keeps the audience in a state of tense expectancy. Unfortunately for the fans, however, recent tests reveal that the wisp of chiffon which stands between the publisher and the postal laws has the tensile strength of drop-forged steel.
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin- it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
Philadelphia, a metropolis sometimes known as the City of Brotherly Love, but more accurately as the City of Bleak November Afternoons.
The dubious privilege of a freelance writer is he's given the freedom to starve anywhere.
The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.
The main obligation is to amuse yourself.
There is something about a home aquarium which sets my teeth on edge the moment I see it. Why anyone would want to live with a small container of stagnant water populated by a half-dead guppy is beyond me.
There is such a thing as too much couth.
To err is human; to forgive, supine.
Tomatoes and squash never fail to reach maturity. You can spray them with acid, beat them with sticks and burn them; they love it.
We old roosters must be cautious. Don't try to outwit your arteries.
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