| Category | Quote | E-Mail this quote | | Aquariums | There is something about a home aquarium which sets my teeth on edge the moment I see it. Why anyone would want to live with a small container of stagnant water populated by a half-dead guppy is beyond me.
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| Awards | This medal [the National Book Award], together with my American Express card, will identify me worldwide -- except at Bloomindale's.
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| England | There is such a thing a too much couth.
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| Farms | A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didn't know enough to stay in the city.
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| Philadelphia | Philadelphia, a metropolis sometimes known as the City of Brotherly Love, but more accurately as the City of Bleak November Afternoons.
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