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1 " had been happy to play the part of a Brontë heroine if it meant she wouldn’t have to learn how to cook. "
― Donald E. Westlake , The Road To Ruin (Dortmunder, #11)
2 " You wanna know what’s happening to New York?” he asked. “I tell you what you do. You go to a used-magazine store, you look at the covers of science fiction magazines from the thirties. That’s what’s happening to New York. "
3 " telling the jokes—was the setups. Why were that priest, that rabbi, and that minister walking down that street? Where were they headed? How had they happened to come together? What odd chance had put ex-presidents Bush, Clinton, and Carter on that same plane? "
4 " At the moment, the discussion concerned global warming. “The reason for global warming,” one of them said as Dortmunder leaned his front against the bar somewhere down to the right of them, “is air conditioners. "
5 " There are no Territories to light out for, not in this century. It was no longer easy to become the new you. New or old, you were already you. "
6 " Since he’d been born rich into a family that had been a long time rich, he’d never known the need to suppress his feelings, so he pouted completely and might even have stamped his foot again, except he sensed that a kind of lumpish stillness might better illustrate the sulk he’d fallen into. "
