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• The defacto use of foreign phrases vis-a-vis plain English in your written tete-a-tetes makes the sentence harder to understand.
• The feeling persists that no one can simultaneously be a respectable writer and understand how a refrigerator works, just as no gentleman wears a brown suit in the city.
  Colleges may be to blame. English majors are encouraged, I know, to hate chemistry and physics, and to be proud because they are not dull and creepy and humorless and war-oriented like the engineers across the quad....
• Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could.
  It's like having a little pet for your face. -- Anita Wise...
• I had to move to New York for health reasons. I'm extremely paranoid and New York is the only place my fears are justified.
  -- Anita Wise...
• He just kept rushing through the lovemaking. Which is the part I like, the beginning part.
  Most women are like that. We need time to warm up....
• What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
  The philosopher, the saint, the hero, the wise, and the good, or the great, very often lie hid and concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have disinterred and brought to light....
• I've been having trouble waking up. I actually dozed off at a red light.
  It was so embarrassing. There I was, out cold, other pedestrians nudging me to cross the street....
• I'll never forget the time I was flying over Milwaukee and the pilot said, "We're now approaching the great city
  let's set our watches back one hundred years." -- Jack E. Leonard...
• Seven years and six months!" Humpty Dumpty repeated thoughtfully.
  "An uncomfortable sort of age. Now if you'd asked my advice, I'd have said `Leave off at seven' -- but it's too late now....