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1 " Two solid weeks of beautiful weather. Clear sunny days, low humidity, temperature in the seventies, air so brisk and clean you could read E PLURIBUS UNUM on a dime across the street. Clear cloudless nights, temperature in the fifties, the sky a great soft raven’s breast, an immense bowl of octopus ink salted with a million hard white crystalline stars and garnished with a huge moon pulsing with white light. It was disgusting. "
― Donald E. Westlake , Drowned Hopes (Dortmunder, #7)
2 " They turned and found themselves facing a bullet head on an ICBM body lumpily stuffed into a black shirt and a brown suit. It was as though King Kong were making a break for it, hoping to smuggle himself back to his island disguised as a human being. "
3 " Like the residents of Brigadoon, the people in the church drifted in a long and dreamless sleep, freed of struggle and expectation. "
4 " Real life. The greatest interactive fiction of them all. "
5 " Why, Wally,” he said. “Except for leaving out the part where Tom continues to be a homicidal maniac, it’s all the truth. "
6 " mother of the bride had been determined that her daughter would have a church wedding, and women who successfully name their infant daughters Tiffany do tend to get their own way, so an evening wedding it was. "
7 " he’d rather shoot you and rob the body than be reduced to "
