The problem with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off.
¶ "The Rodeo Murder"
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Rex Stout (1886-1975) American writer
What makes a marriage last is for a man and a woman to continue to have things to argue about.
¶ (Attributed)
Starving the living will not profit the dead.
¶ The Black Mountain (1954)
I do not insult Marko. I pay him the tribute of speaking of him and feeling about him precisely as I did when he lived; the insult would be to smear his corpse with the honey excreted by my fear of death.
¶ The Black Mountain (1954)
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