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Even his tie—that most treacherous of sartorial shoals, that scrap of fabric upon which many an otherwise sane man lavishes the worst lunacies of misguided self-expression and is thereby wrecked, fashionably speaking—even that was a demure navy-and-burgundy silk rep, with a faint stripe of yellow as discreet as the finest assassin.

— Esther Friesner Elf Defense (1988)

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Like all grandmothers, she wouldn’t mind if the world ended so long as everyone cleaned his plate first.

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Whoever you are, you’re too weird even for New York, and that’s saying something.

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Dignity and self-assurance are everything to a woman, especially a naked one.

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There is a vast difference between innocence and stupidity.

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