"I said I kicked a French chicken in the stomach once." "Huh?" "It said, 'Oeuf.'" "What is that?" "It's a joke. Do you want to hear another, or have you already had un oeuf?"

-- Jonathan Safran Foer

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“All the people know Tomba, but not the real Alberto,”
“And what does it matter when light enters the room where a child sleeps and the waking mother, opening her eyes, wishes more than anything to be unwakened by what she cannot name?”
“Blonde symbolises sexuality and power - it holds very different connotations. The archetypal star has always been blonde.”
“Norfolk is not on the way to anywhere, you don't stop off on the way somewhere else - it's an end in itself. You have to want to go there; it's an effort.”

Source : Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 2003.
“I'm a goody two-shoes who's never taken anything stronger than Tylenol.”
“The dungeon image helped. "You need to let Maximus go," I stated, my voice stronger now. "No. Wine?”
“The inclusion of consequences in the conception of what we have done is an acknowledgement that we are parts of the world, but the paradoxical character of moral luck which emerges from this acknowledgement shows that we are unable to operate with such a view, for it leaves us with no one to be.”
“We never can create a public sentiment strong enough to suppress the dram-shops until God's people take hold of the temperance reform as a part of their religion.”

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