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"Maybe all the strings inside him broke."
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"And then the turbines generate electricity that goes into the whole town." "You mean they aren't powered by giant hamsters on wheels? I was misinformed."
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"It's a new town. The old elegance is gone. It used to be one big family, this industry."
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"The puritanism of Christianity has played havoc with the moderation that an enlightened and tolerant critical spirit would have produced. I've noticed that in whatever country, county, town, or other region there is a regulation enjoining temperance, the population seems to be entirely composed of teetotallers and drunkards. There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire - poison and antidote."
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"I love Mary Chapin Carpenter songs. I love her songs 'Come On, Come On' and 'I Am A Town', they're two of my favorite songs."
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"Nature's noblemen are everywhere,--in town and out of town, gloved and rough-handed, rich and poor. Prejudice against a lord, because he is a lord, is losing the chance of finding a good fellow, as much as prejudice against a ploughman because he is a ploughman."
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"Now there's a grown-up swinging town."
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"The pleasure isn't in doing the thing, the pleasure is in planning it."
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"The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle."
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"Ten thousand people died, an entire town destroyed."
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"It's a town you come to for a short time."
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"In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone."
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"For a while I was living in New Orleans for like 4, 5 years. I had just come back to town."
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"I modelled my looks on the town tramp."
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"My past is not pleasant; I grew up in a very tough town, Waterbury, Connecticut. I grew up in New York, too, but Waterbury was tougher."
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"Everybody in Hollywood was in Around the World in 80 Days. If you weren't, you left town and made up an excuse."
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"You have to love a town where you can both smoke and gamble in a pharmacy."
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"Up and down, up and down I will lead them up and down I am feared in field in town Goblin, lead them up and down"
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"One of the important things about being a small-town reporter is knowing what not to put in the paper."
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