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• If the world is my oyster, where is my oyster knife?
• All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. -- Federico Fellini
• Within the oyster's shell uncouth The purest pearl may hide, Trust me you'll find a heart of truth Within that rough inside.
  -- Mrs. Osgood...
• I acquired my contact lenses a day or two later and they worked superbly.
  To insert them was but the work of a moment: all I had to do was pry open my eyes with a buttonhook, force the lenses in, and gulp as though swallowing a Chincoteague oyster....
• What scoundrel stole the cork from my lunch? -- J. D. Farley
• Just another bit of wit and wisdom from Wintzell's Oyster House.
• A glistening pearl falls out of the clam and rolls away.
  Goodness, this must really be an oyster. (I never was very good at identifying bivalves....
• The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet.
  -- Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book...
• Toys in the attic.