130 Quotes About Wordplay
- Author Terry Pratchett
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The thing about elves is they've got no... begins with m," Granny snapped her fingers irritably."Manners?""Hah! Right, but no""Muscle? Mucus? Mystery?""No. No. No. Means like... seein' the other person's point of view."Verence tried to see the world from a Granny Weatherwax perspective and suspicion dawned. "Empathy?""Right. None at all.
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- Author Emma Richler
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This is not a sweet skein of thought. Unthread it, Rachel.
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- Author Alan Dapre
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Beware the ideas of March... just one little letter changes the whole meaning. I love the way worms can do that.
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- Author James Joyce
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Ena milo melomon, frai is frau and swee is too, swee is two when swoo is free, ana mala woe is we!
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- Author Garth Risk Hallberg
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How to break this to him. How to let a thing be broken.
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- Author Rivka Galchen
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I have mentioned my patient Harvey, but I have failed to properly discuss him and the odd coincidence, or almost co-incidence, of his having vanished just two days before Rema did. So, actually, most likely not a 'coincidence.' In retrospect I feel confident that the seeds of tragedy were sown in what I had originally misperceived as a (kind of) light comedy of errors.
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- Author Emma Richler
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His mother, Zach explained, taught the Romantics and named her sons accordingly, extravagantly, tempting fate. She plays a terrible game of names. Thomas Love survives his beloved elder brother Percy Bysshe who died in a sailing accident. Percy Bysshe, buried at sea. The name and the man, a strange attractor. Everything is true.
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- Author Jeffrey McDaniel
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I want to rip off your logicand make passionate sense to you.
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- Author Aisha Tyler
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I have always been a softie, and I fight it with every fiber of my being.Sadly, my being's fibers need to hit the gym.
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