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“I have a preponderance to look smug in photos; something to do with the way my mouth turns up at the corners.” quote by Chris Ware — Download Open image

“I have a preponderance to look smug in photos; something to do with the way my mouth turns up at the corners.”

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If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and furnish him with his orders: Depart into the uttermost corners of the earth and, diligently do your appointed work. Persecute the sick child, settle upon its eyes, its face, its hands, and gnaw and pester and…

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My first big mistake was made when, in a moment of weakness, I consented to learn the game; for a man who can frankly say "I do not play bridge" is allowed to go over in the corner and run the pianola by himself, while the poor neophyte, no matter how much he may protest that he isn't "at all…

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