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Book cover for Wrecking Yard
“What is it, Colonel Combs?” she says to the man in the chair, and I can tell from her tone that Colonel Combs won’t be getting raisins in his hot cereal for some time to come.
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Matt Groening
“Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.”
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“The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.”
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“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
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George Bernard Shaw
“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
George Bernard Shaw

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