My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. You ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements.
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The age demanded that we dance And jammed us into iron pants. And in the end the age was handed The sort of shit that it demanded.
Permalink to quote #4 God knows, people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp-following eunuchs of literature. They won't even whore…
Permalink to quote #6 A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
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