Die Mackenplage (A plague of tics), in: Naked. Aus dem Amerikanischen von Harry Rowohlt. (Auch unter dem Titel "Nackt" erschienen). München Heyne 2005 (2. Aufl.) S. 33 f.
In STERN 7/2003, Seite 167 http://books.google.com/books?id=Ad48AQAAIAAJ&q=%22nerv%C3%B6sen+Angelegenheiten fehlerhaft zitiert als: "Meine nervösen Angelegenheiten ließen nach, als ich anfing zu rauchen - alles prima, solange es eine Zigarette in meiner unmittelbaren Zukunft gibt."
Original englisch: "I'm unsure of the scientific aspects, but for some reason my nervous habits faded at around the same time I took up with cigarettes. [...] everything's fine as long as I know there's a cigarette in my immediate future." - A Plague of tics
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“If you talk to people, you can have whatever you want.”
26.09.1978 - p.21
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“Someone in the back of the room started singing "God Bless America."”
The thing about "God Bless America" is that, after a certain point, nobody really knows the words. There's always a weird mumbling that follows "Stand beside her and guide her," and lasts until "From the mountains to the prairies."
12.09.2001 - p.455
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01.07.1983 - p.94
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“Sure, some people are nice. Real nice. Nice like carpets so you can walk all over them.”
16.04.1979 - p.31
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"Introduction". p.6, 7 [Page numbers per the 2017 Little, Brown hardback UK edition.]
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“The inevitable finally happened, just as I knew it would.”
06.04.1999 - p.387
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08.12.1986 - p.153
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"Really?" the other guy said. "That's actually their anthem?"
04.09.1992 - p.291
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“It is ironic that nudists are just about the last people you'd ever want to see naked.”
Essay: "Naked". (p.339)
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“Because I was lazy, I'd adopted the philosophy that things just happen.”
Essay: "C.O.G." (p.222)
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Essay, "The girl next door" - p.108
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“Cut corners and it'll always come back to bite you in the ass.”
That was one of her sayings.
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Essay: "Us and them" - p.7 [page numbers per the Abacus paperback, 2005 UK edition]
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