Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.
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When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.
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She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me.
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He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
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The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement.
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The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.
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