"A daffodil bulb will divide and redivide endlessly. That's why, like the peony, it is one of the few flowers you can find around abandoned farmhouses, still blooming and increasing in numbers fifty years after the farmer and his wife have moved to heaven, or the other place, Boca Raton. If you dig up a clump when no one is nearby and there is no danger of being shot, you'll find that there are scores of little bulbs in each clump, the progeny of a dozen or so planted by the farmer's wife in 1942. If you take these home, separate them, and plant them in your own yard, within a couple of years, you'll have a hundred daffodils for the mere price of a trespassing fine or imprisonment or both. I had this adventure once, and I consider it one of the great cheap thrills of my gardening career. I am not advocating trespassing, especially on my property, but there is no law against having a shovel in the trunk of your car."
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"One character all messages had in common was vague generality. "Fly away with me," a tussie-mussie might suggest, but never "Meet me at the railway depot at six-thirty."
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"Here was a flower (the daisy reflected) strangely like itself and yet utterly unlike itself too. Such a paradox has often been the basis for the most impassioned love."
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"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure."
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"Nonsense. Everyone knows Canadians are a peaceful people.โ€ He was laughing now.โ€œTell that to the White House circa 1812,โ€ I told him.โ€œOh? Why?โ€โ€œBecause thatโ€™s the year the peace-loving Canadians burned it to the ground.โ€Dominick grabbed an empty bottle and jumped onto his chair. The room got silent in an instant as everyone paused to look at him. โ€œCheers to 1812.โ€ He lifted his empty bottle. The whole room whooped and raised their full glasses, howling in unison. I could barely hear over the sound of my own laughter."
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"The secret to happiness is a good sense of humor with adult content."
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"I flow like a butter in the nailed pan I stole. I also kept the nail, to polish and use as a means of teleportation."
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"Well, it's not easy to find something that you do not know exists."
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"I'm too short to be strong!"
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"Venerable age had not, for him, arranged that derelict landscape against which it is privileged to sit and pick its nose, break wind, and damn the course of youth groping among the obstacles erected, dutifully, by its own hands earlier, along the way of that sublime delusion known as the pursuit of happiness. Not to be confused with the state of political bigotry, mental obstinacy, financial security, sensual atrophy, emotional penury, and spiritual collapse which, under the name โ€œmaturityโ€, animated lives around him, it might be said that Reverend Gwyon had reached maturity."
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"I finally decided what I want to be when I grow up - late."
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"My secret to maintaining a youthful appearance? Immaturity."
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"So what? All writers are lunatics!"
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"Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."
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"Don't mind her. She keeps her nose so high in the air, she's liable to drown in a good rainstorm."
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"I was accused of always acting superior. Always means being, not acting."
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"You'll need to do a better job, Annabelle. No more dates like the first one tonight."Agreed. And no more making me sit through your Power Matches introductions, either. As you so wisely pointed out, helping Portia Powers isn't in my best interests."Then why are you still trying to talk me into seeing Melanie again"Hunger makes me weird."You got rid of the last one in fourteen minutes. Well done. I'm rewarding you by letting you sit in on all the introductions from now on."She nearly choked on an ice cube. "What are you talking about"Exactly what I said."
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"It's in a can. It's good forever."
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"There exists an oasis where inspiration bursts forth like black gold from the fertile loam and every odd bellbird chirps a melody worth remembering. Thereโ€™s no bloody map or nautical chart that can deliver you there, but you know the instant youโ€™ve arrived because you never ever want to depart."
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"The next thing Jordana says makes me realize that it's too late to save her. "I've noticed that when you light a match, the flame is the same shape as a falling tear." She's been sensitized, turned gooey in the middle. I saw it happening and I didn't do anything to stop it. From now on, she'll be writing diaries and sometimes including little poems and she'll buy gifts for her favourite teachers and she'll admire the scenery and she'll watch the news and she'll buy soup for homeless people and she'll never burn my leg hair again."
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