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My first guess is that you probably have not read most of the plays from which these quotations are taken; my second guess is that you know the phrases anyway.

"A good man is hard to find," Red Sammy said. "Everything is getting terrible. I remember the day you could go off and leave your screen door unlatched. Not no more."

Here's the problem with symbols: people expect them to mean something. Not just any something, but one something in particular. Exactly. Maximum. You know what? It doesn't work like that.

Do I dare

Disturb the universe?

In a minute there is time

For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.

(...Mrs. Hale snatches the box and puts it in the pocket of her big coat. Enter County Attorney and Sheriff.)

COUNTY ATTORNEY (facetiously). Well, Henry, at least we found out that she was not going to quilt it. She was going to--what is it you call it, ladies!

MRS. HALE (her hand against her pocket). We call it--knot it, Mr. Henderson.

It's not too much to say, I think, that geography can be character.

The waves of this ocean, so to speak, were the heads of many curious caddies...and there were usually several stray, diffident waves who might have rolled inside had they so desired.

Seems like a bit of a stretch.

But every so often, something unexpected happens and a broader discussion ensues.

This book willl...refute misconceptions held by English majors, such as: the fatalistic belief that all you will be able to do in the world is teach English.