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I folded the paper and wriggled around in the seat. Buses are like candy bars, I thought. The price goes up and the size goes down. Each new bus seem to have less leg room and a lower headrest that its predecessor, so that you had to be a contortionist to take a nap.

— Richard Wilson

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You’re as nutty as a peck of pecans, ma’am.

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We’ll jump off that bridge when we come to it.

“I accept your good wishes and your resignation. And you can go to hell, Dave Hull.” Dave went to Texas.

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I’d better get back to work. It’s like butting my head against a stone wall, but somebody’s got to keep butting, if only for the sake of other people’s morale.

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“I’ve made my choice, Sam,” she had written. “I had to choose between what I wanted and what I could get. There are times when the ideal is just too unattainable and when the second best becomes, in the long run, the best. Maybe this also has a universal application. I hope so.”

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