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1 " misnomers "
― Woody Allen , Zero Gravity
2 " I signed the agreement as Vigorish stared lupinely at what undoubtedly appeared to his eyes as an order of lambchops in Ralph Lauren tweeds. "
3 " We now have two homes,” I bleated to my wife, fishing out the cyanide capsule my accountant had given me in the event things had taken precisely this turn. "
4 " Rita Moleskin—what are you doing here?” I said, discreetly pocketing the melting remains of my Snickers in a move Cardini would have envied. "
5 " He wrote the definitive book on How to Achieve Orgasm in a Rent-Controlled Apartment. "
6 " Solvency being the better part of valor, I let it slide rather than nuke the trio with one lick of my vermilion tongue. "
7 " I walked her home, chatting about this and that, trying to impress her with tales of my brief stint in the Navy SEALs throwing fish to our men each time they completed a successful mission. "
8 " Chester was the most revered male in the extended family because he enunciated like Abba Eban. "
9 " She said they should view the marriage as a learning experience and, rather than have any regrets, they should focus instead on the alimony "
10 " while Sachs was also a liberal, he did not enjoy accompanying her to hear folk singing. "
11 " So what character in fiction do you most identify with?” she pressed him. Finally, he said, “Gregor Samsa.” “My god, you kill me.” She laughed. "
12 " The owner, Al Capon, a small-time egg baron whose fortunes rose and fell with every new study on cholesterol, offered his pudgy hand and blew a gust of smoke my way from a panatela "
13 " Tantrum time, rage, anxiety, depression, genetics, Miltown. "
14 " He and his wife moved to England. He had always wanted to live in the Cotswolds and be a country squire. "
15 " She knew all the best doctors and Swedish cleaning ladies and where to buy the finest brownies. It was either Greenberg’s or William Pohl, “depending on what your chocolate craving is signaling. "
16 " Bolt, who not only acts but writes, directs, and produces, had just opened his latest film, Requiem for a Schnorrer, to raves. "
17 " she also knew the best sturgeon came from the West Side at Barney Greengrass. "
18 " Later, on the great lawn at Tanglewood, under the Big Dipper, listening to the unbearable sadness of Mahler’s Fourth, they eventually drifted back into each other’s arms, and the crisis faded. "
19 " How wrong Emily Dickinson was. Hope is not ‘the thing with feathers.’ The thing with feathers has turned out to be my nephew. I must take him to a specialist in Zurich. "
20 " The star’s proudest possession, I learned, is the engraved Rolex he was given for Valentine’s Day by Mother Teresa. "