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“Yes; your house is dull enough to drive people to think.”
― Alexandre Dumas, Il visconte di Bragelonne

“dreamers--which the English call splash; Arabian poets gasgachau; and which we Frenchmen, who would be poets, can only translate by a paraphrase--the noise of water falling into water.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Vicomte de Bragelonne

“this is a very fair gathering--circumspect, calm, accustomed to disturbance, acquainted with blows! Peste! I have been lucky.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Vicomte de Bragelonne

“Mazarin, in his character of cardinal and prime minister, was almost an atheist, and quite a materialist.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Vicomte de Bragelonne

“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“As for the story itself, it was entitled "The Dancing Fool." Like so many Trout stories, it was about a tragic failure to communicate. Here was the plot: A flying saucer creature named Zog arrived on Earth to explain how wars could be prevented and how cancer could be cured. He brought the information from Margo, a planet where the natives conversed by means of farts and tap dancing. Zog landed at night in Connecticut. He had no sooner touched down than he saw a house on fire. He rushed into the house, farting and tap dancing, warning the people about the terrible danger they were in. The head of the house brained Zog with a golfclub.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

“Barry Lyga is God!”
― Barry Lyga, Edited: Mike & Phil & All the World

“Because there were thousands of adventures still to be had, and only a limited number of days left to have them.”
― Traci Chee, The Reader

“Maybe someone was reading her right now, and if she looked up, she would see their eyes staring down at her, following her every move. Maybe someone was reading the reader.”
― Traci Chee, The Reader