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• I loved him like a brothel. -- S. J. Perelma
• He was as tough as a two dollar steak
• Smithers: Sir, bad news from accounting: the economy's hit us pretty hard.
  Burns: Heh, tough times, huh? I've lived through twelve recessions, eight panics, and five years of McKinleynomics....
• He 's tough, ma'am,--tough is J. B.; tough and devilish sly.
  -- Charles Dickens (1812-1870) -- Dombey and Son, Chap. vii...
• A mind is a terrible thing to lay off.
• There is nothing like a good painstaking survey full of decimal points and guarded generalizations to put a glaze like a Sung vase on your eyeball.
  -- S. J. Perelma...
• If anyone wants to trade a couple of centrally located, well-cushioned showgirls for an eroded slope 90 minutes from Broadway, I'll be on this corner tomorrow at 11 with my tongue hanging out.
  -- S. J. Perelma...
• If anyone wants to trade a couple of centrally located, well-cushioned showgirls for an eroded slope 90 minutes from Broadway, I'll be on this corner tomorrow at 11 with my tongue hanging out.
  -- S. J. Perelma...
• Last but not least, lay off cliches. -- Writing Rule 19