You been mud wrestling..?' 'Only with my conscience.' 'Really? Who won?' 'Well, it was one of those rare occasions when violence really doesn't solve anything.
A technicality I'm prepared to hide wildly behind.
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Jim Butcher
You noticed that I wore this outfit twice? Why, the only thing you wear twice is a sour expression.
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L.m. Montgomery
Talking to them was like being placed into conversational purgatory, with no hope of being released without significant damage to one's self-esteem.
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Elizabeth Eulberg
It is, in the imagination of combat's fans, the divinely listless loveplay that follows the orgasm of victory. It is called 'mopping up.
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
But life is not like that. You are not an airline. You can't remove a single olive from every salad served in first class and save one point two million dollars.
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Lynn Messina
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