

“Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.”
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“A European says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with me? An American says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with him?
I make no suggestion that one side or other is right, but observation over many years leads me to believe it is true.”
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I make no suggestion that one side or other is right, but observation over many years leads me to believe it is true.”
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“Thurber was asked by a correspondent: "Why did you have a comma in the sentence, 'After dinner, the men went into the living-room'?" And his answer was probably one of the loveliest things ever said about punctuation. "This particular comma," Thurber explained, "was Ross's way of giving the men time to push back their chairs and stand up.”
― Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
― Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

“It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever," he said. "Have you thought of going into teaching?”
― Mort
― Mort

Dinner and a book in the big little city of Gadsden.
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