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“...creating a universe was one thing, saving a seat on the four-fifteen to Taunton was something else.”

Book:View from a Bouncy Castle

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“Wait," I gurgled, pivoting his delivery leeward. "That's not the newspaper. The sign says Philadelphia Art Museum." There was by then a clanging report as the errant brick smashed with major league velocity into a bronze statue that graced the museum's green lawn, severing the masterpiece's nose like a no-frills rhinoplasty. "Hey," I bellowed, surveying the damage. "Look what you did to Sylvester Stallone.”

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Book:Zero Gravity

Source: Zero Gravity

“It seemed like this day could go in so many directions, like a spiderweb shooting out toward endless possibilities. Whenever you made a choice, especially one you'd been resisting, it always affected everything else, some in big ways, like a tremor beneath your feet, others in so tiny a shift you hardly noticed a change at all. But it was happening.”

Love Life Happiness

Author:Sarah Dessen

“An aphorism is nothing else but the slightest form of writing raised to the highest level of expressive communication. Let’s make an example. Being a scholar of stupidity, how might I avoid to thank a lot of people for their existence. Carl William Brown”

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Book:William Shakespeare Aphoristic Dictionary: With essays by Carl William Brown

Source: William Shakespeare Aphoristic Dictionary: With essays by Carl William Brown

“There is no such thing as worthy and unworthy – there is only the throne and those too weak to sit on it.”

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Book:Harry Windzor and the Stone of Scone: A Potter Parody and Prince Harry Satire

Source: Harry Windzor and the Stone of Scone: A Potter Parody and Prince Harry Satire

“Monarchies, dynasties, fairytales ... there is a fine line between these, Harry. The public know our names, they know our faces ... they know our stories – but that is all they are. You see, the media tells its tales about love and patriotism and duty, and that is what the people see, obligingly and obediently.”

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Book:Harry Windzor and the Stone of Scone: A Potter Parody and Prince Harry Satire

Source: Harry Windzor and the Stone of Scone: A Potter Parody and Prince Harry Satire

“When it comes to being considered an adult I have three strikes against me. One, I barely reach five feet on a good day. Two, my round face, owl-like eyes, and tiny mouth give people the impression I’m some kind of haunted doll come to life. And three, my voice barely registers above the volume of flipping a book’s pages.”

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Book:Why Cheese?

Source: Why Cheese?

“One man, thirteen pints of lager, two doner kebabs”

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Book:Bent Cop: Johnny Takes Out The Trash

Source: Bent Cop: Johnny Takes Out The Trash

“You have deceived me!” Alasthe snapped. “This is wine!” “You were far thirstier than I imagined!” I laughed. “Please, mathi, rest your weary eyes and let us at least keep you company until athi returns to us!” Alasthe's nostrils fumed, but she giggled all the same at our playful deception.”

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Author:ArtakaWorks Studio

“Bad wives and bad weekends are so similar. They’re like rotten fruits and vegetables bought at a night market in wartimes.”

Humour Wives Weekends

Author:Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

“The same rumour continued: Patroni made love the same way he did everything else – with a long, thin cigar stuck jauntily in the side of his mouth. This was untrue, at least nowadays. Marie, having coped with several pillow fires during their early years in marriage- drawing on her training as a TWA air hostess to extinguish them – had emphatically forbidden any more cigars in bed.”

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Book:Airport

Source: Airport

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