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“No man was ever taken to hell by a woman unless he already had a ticket in his pocket or at least had been fooling around with timetables.” quote by Rex Stout — Download Open image

““No man was ever taken to hell by a woman unless he already had a ticket in his pocket or at least had been fooling around with timetables.””

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“Frankly, I wish I could make my heart quit doing an extra thump when Wolfe says satisfactory, Archie. It's childish.”

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The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold -- if you have one.

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“When we turned right on Thirty-fifth Street our suffix came along. By the time we rolled to the curb in front of Wolfe's house…

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When I go into the studio, I'm strictly for business... I don't like any fooling around in the studio.

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As a West Side kid fooling around with boxing gloves, I had been, for some reason of temperament, more interested in dodging a blow…

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This ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no fooling around.

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“Hurry up, you Hoosier bastard, I could kill ten men while you're fooling around!”

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Don't know why I did it, I was just fooling around. I never knew life was so precious, until I hit the ground. I…

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“And yes, I say, I do like girls. I don't pursue them, though, and there are a lot of reasons for that. It's gotten…

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Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was just another…

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