Is That What People Do? Short Stories Quotes

“Sir,” the clerk said, “you choose to be disagreeable.” “Nasty is the word you were looking for. I’ve changed my mind about the typewriter. But let me compliment you on your command of English.”
― Robert Sheckley, Is That What People Do?: Stories

“Wilt snare me with predestination ‘round,” Margraves quoted, “and then impute my fall to sin?”
― Robert Sheckley, Is That What People Do?: Stories

“Next Maginnis found him a spacious rent-controlled triplex on Patchin Place for $102.78 a month”
― Robert Sheckley, Is That What People Do?: Stories