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• If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing. -- Kingsley Ami
• Refreshed by a brief blackout, I got to my feet and went next door. -- Martin Amis, "Money
• Martin: Bart, can we stop for ice cream? Ba
  Yes. [a little later, the boys all have cones] Nelso...
• Homer: Maybe we did fake a kidnapping, but is that really such a crime?
  All your son wanted was a little attention, a little love....
• I ask only one thing. I'm understanding. I'm mature.
  And it isn't much to ask. I want to get back to London, and track her down, and be alone with my Selina -- or not even alone, damn it, merely close to her, close enough to smell her skin, to see the flecked webbing of her lemony eyes, the moulding of her artful lips....
• We must never permit the voice of humanity within us to be silenced.
  It is man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man. -- Albert Schweitze...
• Mankind is the only one of God's creatures who will foul his own nest. -- Mildred Marti
• At least we'll be away from all this openness. No, this is too strange for us.
  We are creatures of outer space. Soon, we will be safe in the comforting closeness of walls....