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Have lunch. It wasn’t anywhere near noon, but for food like this, they weren’t about to quibble. Suddenly the idea of going forth and smiting the heathen didn’t seem that attractive. Life is too short and sweet to waste it bludgeoning your brother into accepting your way of seeing Heaven.

— Esther Friesner Hooray for Hellywood (1990)

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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.

New York by Knight (1986)

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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Fools are always at the bottom of the food chain.

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