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Prices of semicolons, plot devices, prologues and inciting incidents continued to fall yesterday, lo...

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Everyone lives in two worlds,” Maggie said, speaking in an absentminded sort of way while she studie...

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Everyone lives in two worlds,” Maggie said, speaking in an absentminded sort of way while she studie...

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Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word.

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Julio CortázarAround the Day in Eighty Worlds

Alice sighed wearily. `I think you might do something better with the time,' she said, `than waste i...

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Of course it is,’ said the Duchess, who seemed ready to agree to everythingthat Alice said; ‘there’s...

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Lewis CarrollAlice in Wonderland

Why it's simply impassible!Alice: Why, don't you mean impossible? Nothing's impossible!

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Lewis CarrollAlice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

Why it's simply impassible!Alice: Why, don't you mean impos

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Lewis CarrollAlice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense

It was not that he was feckless, more that he had simply not been around the day they handed out fec...

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Now me,” said Mr. Vandemar.“What number am I thinking of?” “I beg your pardon?” “What number am I th...

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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything el...

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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

Three,' reckoned the captain, 'ourselves make seven, counting Hawkins, here. Now, about honest hands...

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Save your explanations, I got some questions for you first and you'd better answer them!' [slurred H...

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I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Ducking for apples -- change one letter and it's the story of my life.

Don't look at me in that tone of voice.

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.

tomorrow's gone-we'll have tonight!

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Dorothy ParkerThe Poetry and Short Stories of Dorothy Parker

Brevity is the soul of lingerie.

That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.

Arthur: If I asked you where the hell we were, would I regret it?Ford: We're safe.Arthur: Oh good.Fo...

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Douglas AdamsThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

Your friends are all the dullest dogs I know. They are not beautiful: they are only decorated. They ...

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The place suggested a convent with the modern improvements—an asylum in which privacy, though unbrok...

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