Dummy Quote by Alexander Theroux

“It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy.”

Alexander Theroux

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There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.

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Yellow is vagueness and luminousness, both.

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Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends," says I, "how much you used the dictionary…

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“...we are willing to lose ourselves in another as we exchange fates with one whom we love but on whom our heart is nevertheless…

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Adultery is the vice of equivocation. It is not marriage but a mockery of it, a merging that mixes love and dread together like jackstraws. There is no understanding of contentment in adultery… You belong to each other in what together you've made of a third identity that almost immediately cancels your own. There is a law in art that…

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The particular source of frustration of women observing their own self-study and measuring their worth as women by the distance they kept from men necessitated that a distance be kept, and so what vindicated them also poured fuel on the furnace of their rage. One delight presumed another dissatisfaction, but their hatefulness confessed to their own lack of power to…

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The parrot holds its food for prim consumption as daintily as any debutante, [with] a predilection for pot roast, hashed-brown potatoes, duck skin, butter,…

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Nothing is quite as bad as being without privacy and lonely at the same time.

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The urge for Chinese food is always unpredictable: famous for no occasion, standard fare for no holiday, and the constant as to demand is…

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Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combined with the imperative of accomplishing nothing.

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“. . . it is called 'camel case' or 'intercapping' -- of writing small letters next to large in the same word, as in…

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Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.

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I just quit eating like a dummy.

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We can talk about the economy, we can talk about Social Security. The biggest problem this world has is nuclear proliferation. And we have a country out there, North Korea, which is sort of wacko, which is not a bunch of dummies. And they are going out and they are developing nuclear weapons. And they're not doing it because they're…

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