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"According to the latest poll in the Washington Post, 63 percent of Americans said that so far they approve of President Bush. Not surprisingly, the other 37 percent are English teachers."
"No," I said finally. "Slowness in Answering," she said into the handheld. "When's the last time you slept?" "1940" I said promptly, which is the problem with Quickness in Answering."
"For even if you should have stood your ground, he said, yet what ground was it?"
"Where in this pukehole can a man get a drink? he said"
"I dont know what I ever done, she said. I truly dont. Chigurh nodded. Probably you do, he said. There's a reason for everything. She shook her head. How many times I've said them very words. I wont again."
"I thought you were sane," I said, "but you're just as crazy as the rest of them."
"Your writing", she said to me, "it's so raw. It's like a sledgehammer, and yet it has humor and tenderness. . . ."
"I did not know I loved you until I heard myself telling so, for one instance I thought, "Good God, what have I said?" and then I knew it was true."
"The newspapers at one time said that I was dead but after carefully examining the evidence I came to the conclusion that this statement was false."
"Alexander the great was ask how he conquered the world he said, "by not waivering"."
"If you'd have said Evangelical in 1957, most people wouldn't know what you were talking about. And then, they'd be against it."
"Here’s how a child listens: you tell him something, and he puts his own interpretation on what you said. That’s what he hears. No one has ever heard you."
"I've always said that you can't be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc's voice."
"There was a young man who said though, it seems that I know that I know, but what I would like to see is the I that knows me when I know that I know that I know."
"There's something to be said for relatives...it has to be said because it's unprintable!"
"There are things that can't be said, because it's hard to have to know them."
"I wouldn't listen to my parents, but I found out that I absorbed. I never heard what they said - told me - but I did what they did."
"You tell anyone that I cried, and I'll cut your liver out." "Do you even know where a human liver resides?"[...] "Yes," she said, and punched him in it."
"I am a fox", the fox said."
"Stalin said artists are the engineers of human souls. I wanted to show what happens to the soul when the engineers get through with it."
