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A little girl robbed you?" Tessa said. "Actually, she wasn’t a little girl at all, as it turns out, but a midget in a dress with a penchant for violence, who goes by the name of Six-Fingered Nigel." "Easy mistake to make," Jem said.
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Cassandra Clare (Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices, #1))
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The way I wrestle five-year-olds makes me think if I were ever attacked by a pack of midgets, I’d be OK.

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Jarod Kintz ($3.33 (the title is the price))
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Don't you think baby corns are scary? There's just something wrong about their midget bodies.
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P.C. Cast (Marked (House of Night, #1))
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Aaah ... said Ron, imitating Professor Trelawney’s mystical whisper, when two Neptunes appear in the sky it is a sure sign that a midget in glasses is being born, Harry...
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J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4))
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I had such plans for this evening. The pursuit of blind drunkenness and wayward women was my goal. But alas, it was not to be. No sooner had I consumed my third drink in the Devil than I was accosted by a delightful small flower selling child who asked me for twopence for a daisy. The price seemed steep, so I refused. When I told the girl as much, she proceeded to rob me.” β€œA little girl robbed you?” Tessa said. β€œActually, she wasn’t a little girl at all, as it turns out, but a midget in a dress with a penchant for violence, who goes by the name of Six-Fingered Nigel.
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Cassandra Clare (Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices, #1))
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Love is like learning to ride a midget, which I’ve never done because I’m afraid of heights.
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Jarod Kintz (Love quotes for the ages. Specifically ages 18-81.)
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I've got a theory, it could be bunnies... I've got a theor- Bunnies aren't just cute like everybody supposes They've got them hoppy legs and twitchy little noses. And what's with all the carrots-? What do they need such good eyesight for anyway? Bunnies, bunnies it must be bunnies! ...or maybe midgets...
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Joss Whedon
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Ah, the patter of little feet around the house. There's nothing like having a midget for a butler.
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W.C. Fields
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She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.
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Clive James
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Right, because I'm flat-chested and a midget.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1))
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Expect nothing. Live frugally On surprise. become a stranger To need of pity Or, if compassion be freely Given out Take only enough Stop short of urge to plead Then purge away the need. Wish for nothing larger Than your own small heart Or greater than a star; Tame wild disappointment With caress unmoved and cold Make of it a parka For your soul. Discover the reason why So tiny human midget Exists at all So scared unwise But expect nothing. Live frugally On surprise.
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Alice Walker
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Excuse me, Mr Tall-and-Good-looking Wolfman, but can you help the English midget reach the sauce?’ I think not.
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Joss Stirling (Finding Sky (Benedicts, #1))
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Ron, we're supposed to show the first years where to go!" "Oh yeah," said Ron, who had obviously forgotten. "Hey -- hey you lot! Midgets!
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J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5))
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Jem grinned. β€œWhere have you been? The Blue Dragon? The Mermaid?” β€œThe Devil Tavern if you must know.” Will sighed and leaned against one of the posts of the bed. β€œI had such plans for the evening. The pursuit of blind drunkenness and wayward women was my goal. But alas, it was not to be. No sooner had I consumed my third drink in the Devil than I was accosted by a delightful small flower-selling child who asked me for two-pence for a daisy. The price seemed steep, so I refused. When I told the girl as much, she proceeded to rob me.” β€œA little girl robbed you?” Tessa said. β€œActually, she wasn’t a little girl at all, as it turns out, but a midget in a dress who goes by the name of Six-Fingered Nigel.” β€œEasy mistake to make,” Jem said.
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Cassandra Clare (Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices, #1))
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You see, to tall men I'm a midget, and to short men I'm a giant; to the skinny ones I'm a fat man, and to the fat ones I'm a thin man.
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Norton Juster (The Phantom Tollbooth)
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We had a blast at my magical birthday party. There were midgets, fairies, glass slippers, and I actually got to ride in a pumpkin.
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Jarod Kintz (This Book is Not for Sale)
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I loved her as long as a midget. It was gruesome, and then I grew some.
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Jarod Kintz (This Book is Not for Sale)
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Do you know how much laughter is in a single bag of chips? Enough to feed a seriously starved midget for a week. Now with 33.3% reduced fat!
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Jarod Kintz (This Book is Not for Sale)
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That cat was a spy. You had to take a pot shot at it. It was a very clever German midget dressed up in a cheap fur coat.
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J.D. Salinger (Nine Stories)
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That's bad luck: three on a midget.
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Groucho Marx
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Aren't you something," Grandma said. "I never saw a midget up close." "Little person," Briggs said. "And I never saw anyone as old as you up close, either.
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Janet Evanovich (High Five (Stephanie Plum, #5))
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Where's the use of looking nice, when no one sees me but those cross midgets, and no one cares whether I'm pretty or not?
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Louisa May Alcott (Little Women (Little Women, #1))
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DOWN THESE MEAN STREETS A MIDGET MUST GO!
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Art Spiegelman (Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*! (Pantheon Graphic Library))
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That's racist. you maple sucking moose loving midget!
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America Hetalia
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I frowned. This from a man who just watched a midget riding a gimp?
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Jaye Wells (Green-Eyed Demon (Sabina Kane, #3))
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There's a Drunk Midget in My House Ah, babies! They're more than just adorable little creatures on whom you can blame your farts. Like most people who have had one baby, I am an expert on everythiing and will tell you, unsolicited, how to raise your kid!
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Tina Fey (Bossypants)
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Alan Grant: "There are... far too many words written. Millions and millions of them pouring from the presses every minute. It's a horrible thought." The Midget (his nurse): "You sound constipated.
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Josephine Tey (The Daughter of Time (Inspector Alan Grant, #5))
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Half an hour later, each of them had been given a complicated circular chart, and was attempting to fill in the position of the planets at their moment of birth. It was dull work, requiring much consultation of timetables and calculation of angles. β€œI’ve got two Neptunes here,” said Harry after a while, frowning down at his piece of parchment, β€œthat can’t be right, can it?” β€œAaaaah,” said Ron, imitating Professor Trelawney’s mystical whisper, β€œwhen two Neptunes appear in the sky, it is a sure sign that a midget in glasses is being born, Harry . . .
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J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4))
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That's right, bitch. Goldie Schwartz. And I'm not a fucking midget. I prefer the term 'fun sized'.
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Jaye Wells (Silver-Tongued Devil (Sabina Kane, #4))
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Is this the baby?" I said. Ma turned on me again. "What do you think it is?" she said. "A midget that can't talk?
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George Saunders (Tenth of December)
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Midget,” Nat says simply, his smile widening. β€œI was not a midget.” Nat raises an eyebrow. β€œIt looked that way from up here. The same as Rachel. The Two Midgets of Malibu.” Loving Summer by Kailin Gow
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Kailin Gow (Loving Summer (Loving Summer, #1))
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According to Thomas, the city [of Bath] had once been a veritable hotbed of manifestations, with every sorcerer, bunyip, golem, goblin, pict, pixie, demon, thylacine, gorgon, moron, cult, scum, mummy, rummy, groke, sphinx, minx, muse, flagellant, diva, reaver, weaver, reaper, scabbarder, scabmettler, dwarf, midget, little person, leprechaun, marshwiggle, totem, soothsayer, truthsayer, hatter, hattifattener, imp, panwere, mothman, shaman, flukeman, warlock, morlock, poltergeist, zeitgeist, elemental, banshee, manshee, lycanthrope, lichenthrope, sprite, wight, aufwader, harpy, silkie, kelpie, klepto, specter, mutant, cyborg, balrog, troll, ogre, cat in shoes, dog in a hat, psychic and psychotic seemingly having decided that this was the hot spot to visit.
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Daniel O'Malley (The Rook (The Checquy Files, #1))
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With anal sex, I suggest you start gently. Find a slender midget. Or a member of Congress.
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Jarod Kintz ($3.33 (the title is the price))
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I took the Nuban's bow. I didn't trust the midget to be able to run down any thieves, and besides, I might want to shoot a circus clown or two. Just for laughs.
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Mark Lawrence (King of Thorns (The Broken Empire, #2))
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Many of us are confessional giants but ethical midgets.
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Mark Buchanan (The Holy Wild: Trusting in the Character of God)
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He was in blue jeans and a work shirt, which is another weird quirk of Rich Old Men. Just one of the guys here. Blue jeans and a work shirt, salt of the earth, working man like yourself. Like they're somehow uncomfortable about being rich enough to sleep in a bed made of vaginas being pulled around the town at night by a fleet of gold-covered midgets.
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Warren Ellis (Crooked Little Vein)
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Tessa: "A little girl robbed you?" Will: "Actually, she wasn't a little girl at all, as it turns out, but a midget in a dress with a penchant for violence, who goes by the name Six-Fingered Nigel." Jem:"Easy mistake to make." (later) Will: "I want to be back before dark. I have an assignation in Soho this evening with a certain attractive someone" Tessa: β€œGoodness, If you keep seeing Six-Fingered Nigel like this, he'll expect you to declare your intentions.
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Cassandra Clare (Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices, #1))
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Midget, midget, midget, how he struts and winks, For he knows a man's as big as what he hopes and thinks!
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (Cat’s Cradle)
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Education will only take you so far. To go even further, I’d recommend getting a piggyback ride from a midget half your body weight.
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Jarod Kintz (The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They're Over.)
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I consider seeing my 30th birthday an accomplishment. You know, not many midgets live to be this tall.
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Jarod Kintz (Whenever You're Gone, I'm Here For You)
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Unrequited love," I'd say. He'd look at me sideways in that cunning way he did and say, "what about it?" and I'd reply, "it's not your color." Pithy. Just to show him that I'd noticed. Or maybe I'd show myself to her and say, "Guess I'm not the only one who uses humans around here." And then I'd summon some of Owain's hounds to chew off the bottom bits of her legs. Then she wouldn't fit just right into his arms. She'd be too short. It'd be like hugging a midget. Nuala- pg. 75
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Maggie Stiefvater (Ballad: A Gathering of Faerie (Books of Faerie, #2))
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Let's go inside. I always find walking inside buildings has this bizarre effect on me. I immediately forget uncomfortable situations, like when tiny midget women straddle my best friend's boyfriend and face-rape him.
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Frankie Rose (Eternal Hope (Hope, #2))
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Better feed him more beans or you’re going to have a midget on your hands, Wiley,” he said. β€œIt’s bad enough to be deaf, but to be a deaf midget… oh God, help us. I had a dog like that once.
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Nick Wilgus (Shaking the Sugar Tree (Sugar Tree, #1))
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The people there were gods and midgets and knew themselves mortal and so the midgets walked tall so as not to embarrass the gods and the gods crouched so as to make the small ones feel at home.
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Ray Bradbury (Dandelion Wine)
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I've got two Neptunes here," said Harry after a while, frowning down at his piece of parchment, "that can't be right, can it?" "Aaaaah," said Ron, imitating Professor Trelawney's mystical whisper, "when two Neptunes appear in the sky, it is a sure sign that a midget in glasses is being born, Harry..." Seamus and Dean, who were working nearby, sniggered loudly, though not loud enough to mask the excited squeals from Lavender Brownβ€” "Oh Professor, look! I think I might've gotten an unaspected planet! Oooh, which one's that, Professor?" "It is Uranus, my dear," said Professor Trelawney, peering down at the chart. "Can I get a look at Uranus too, Lavender?" said Ron.
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J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4))
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Im being haunted by midgets. Heavy, determined, club wieldind midgets
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Paul Magrs
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I long for your love like the length of a midget.
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Jarod Kintz (Love quotes for the ages. Specifically ages 18-81.)
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If he ever got back to earth, he was making them list that as one of the dangers of outer space exploration, dammit. Watch out for big damn space perverts, all you earth midgets.
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Twisted Hilarity
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From what I've seen, a girl's got to behave like a mental midget before she'll get any action in this town. If resisting that makes me a freak, so be it. I may die with my hymen intact, but at least I'll have my dignity" ~ Confessions of a Triple Shot Betty
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Jody Gehrman
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Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants.
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana (The Use and Misuse of Children)
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I have finally taught Dean that he can do anything he wants, become mayor of Denver, marry a millionairess, or become the greatest poet since Rimbaud. But he keeps rushing out to see the midget auto races
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Jack Kerouac (On the Road)
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Next to fat babies, midgets are my favorite things to hold. I love them so much, and I want to help them to do adult things like drive cars, Jet-Ski, and lip-synch. I’m in awe of their little limbs, their large craniums, and their medicine-ball asses. I love the little baby steps they take while shifting their weight from side to side, and the fact that when you knock one over accidentally, he flails like a turtle on its back that can’t get up right away.
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Chelsea Handler
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I have finally taught Dean that he can do anything he wants, become mayor of Denver, marry a millionaires, or become the greatest poet since Rimbaud. But he keeps rushing out to see the midget auto races. I go with him.
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Jack Kerouac (On the Road)
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I am one pair of roses away from the grave,” I told the midget with the twelve-inch erection. It wasn’t hisβ€”he was just holding it for a friend (that impressive penis belonged to a much taller man). Ah, but that’s life, no?
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Jarod Kintz (Ah, but that's life, no?)
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You open a door and find a midget, and there’s no way you can be in a bad mood. It’s just not possible.
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Tim Dorsey (When Elves Attack (Serge Storms #14))
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The book β€œLittle Women,” what, is that about midgets? I freaking love midgets.
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Jarod Kintz ($3.33 (the title is the price))
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There are only two ways to get in and out of an MG Midget sports car – the elegant way or my way. The elegant way is how you see the film stars do it on TV when they arrive at the Oscars. To get in, put your bum inside first and then swivel legs round. Similarly, to exit, swivel legs out, bum last. My way is to get everything but bum in first, leave bum out in the cold for a bit while struggling with other appendages, and then bum can come in. To get out, I simply fall on to the pavement.
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Sarah Mason (Playing James (Colshannon))
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If you were to ask me if I have ever loved a woman, I'd probably reply, "Two gallons of milk and a midget.
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Jarod Kintz (This Book is Not for Sale)
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Louis said, "There ought to be a comic book about geeks." Dr. McNaughton said, "There are books about geeks." He said, "There are?" Dr. McNaughton said, "I'll read you some Faulkner sometime. I'll read you some Eudora Welty, some Flannery O'Connor. Geeks, midgets, anything your heart desires. Better than comic books." Louis looked at his father. He said, "You'll read to me? Really?
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Lewis Nordan (The Sharpshooter Blues (Front Porch Paperbacks))
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Haruka: I was waiting out front, but you never came. So I came looking for you. And sure enough you're in the midget's clutches! Otani: This isn't a B-movie, it's a school where you aren't a student!
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Aya Nakahara (Loveβ˜…Com, Vol. 2)
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If you work hard, and become successful, it does not necessarily mean you are successful because you worked hard, just as if you are tall with long hair it doesn't mean that you would be a midget if you were bald.
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Lemony Snicket
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Somehow, the notion that Professor Moriarty had parents - might have been a child - never sat right. A viper is a snake straight from the egg. I couldn't help but picture little Jamie as a balding midget in a sailor suit, spying Cook and the baker's boy rolling in the flour on the kitchen table through his toy telescope, and blackmailing them for extra buns.
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Kim Newman (Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the D'Urbervilles)
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Stephanie, huh?” I ask, when she doesn’t respond. β€œYou go by Steph?” β€œNo. Not Steph.” she says as we cross the street to the familiar green and white Starbucks logo. β€œMy ex-boyfriend called me that so I’m kind of over it.” God, someone actually dated this cranky little midget? Then my eyes skimmed the perky cleavage beneath the tiny tank top. Right. There was that.
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Lauren Layne (Isn't She Lovely (Redemption, #0.5))
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I would pore for hours over the stalls of worn necklaces, sets of gilt spoons, sugar tongs in the shape of hen's feet or midget hands, clocks that didn't work, flowered china, spotty mirrors and ponderous furniture, the flotsam left by those receding centuries in which, more and more, I was living.
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Margaret Atwood (Lady Oracle)
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When Hodges returns to his chair with his small bundle of mail, the fight-show host is saying goodbye and promising his TV Land audience that tomorrow there will be midgets. Whether of the physical or mental variety he does not specify.
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Stephen King (Mr. Mercedes (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #1))
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It's strange, isn't it, how you never know you're living the best time of your life at the moment you're living it? If you could appreciate, at that instant, that this is it, maybe you'd make certain your mind imprinted every detail of the sights, smells, sounds and sensations. Then again, maybe knowing that life will only get duller, sadder, less hopeful afterward would inject melancholy into that moment. You'd miss life's peak experience by mourning it before it passes. So perhaps it's best not to know.
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Anita Bartholomew (The Midget's House)
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He who makes fun of a short and fat man’s weight is much less cruel than he who makes fun of his height.
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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I'm not too heavy?" she asked. He had just come off crutches, after all. Sophie, you're practically a midget," he reminded her.
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Sarah Mayberry (Burning Up)
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That goddam stunted, red-faced, big-cheeked, apple-cheeked, curlyheaded, midget assed, , google-eyed, undersized, grinning, buck-toothed rat!!" Yossarian sputtered. ~ Catch-22
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Joseph Heller
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My shadow’s so substantial that it has its own shadow. It isn’t as tall, but that’s OK, because sometimes it feels like I’m being followed by a black midget.
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Jarod Kintz (99 Cents For Some Nonsense)
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Come, midget, and use my pillow as a sleeping bag.
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Jarod Kintz (At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.)
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Books are portable companions. But so are midgets.
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Jarod Kintz (Who Moved My Choose?: An Amazing Way to Deal With Change by Deciding to Let Indecision Into Your Life)
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How many midgets does it take to take over the world? I’m not sure, but I’d guess twice as many.
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Jarod Kintz (This Book is Not for Sale)
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My penis isn’t big. It just appeared that way because the midget’s hands were so small.
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Jarod Kintz (99 Cents For Some Nonsense)
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When one speaks of sex with midgets, one must speak French.
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Dennis Vickers
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Andrew was just a psychotic midget, and Neil had grown up around violence.
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Nora Sakavic (The Foxhole Court (All for the Game, #1))
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My house is like living with the circus. All we need is a midget and a bearded lady. Well, all we need is a midget.
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Dina Kucera (Everything I Never Wanted to Be)
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I Can't Concentrate With Your Annoying Midget Voice Yammering On And On. It's Like Having Stuart Little Shoved In My Ear.
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Jess Mariano, Gilmore Girls
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Everyone looked like a broken-down movie extra, a withered starlet; disenchanted stunt-men, midget auto-racers, poignant California characters with their end-of-the-continent sadness, handsome, decadent, Casanova-ish men, puffy-eyed motel blondes, hustlers, pimps, whores, masseurs, bellhops-- a lemon lot, and how's a man going to make a living with a gang like that?
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Jack Kerouac (On the Road)
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I got a small package in the mail today, and I thought it was the midget stripper I bought off eBay. But it was just a pair of shoes I ordered. Didn’t matter, I still made them dance for me.
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Jarod Kintz (This Book is Not for Sale)
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They say Los Angeles is like The Wizard of Oz. One minute it’s small-town monochrome neighborhoods and then boomβ€”all of a sudden you’re in a sprawling Technicolor freak show, dense with midgets.
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David Wong (John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End #1))
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The cat saw me at once, of course, and every hair on his body stood straight up, and he made a sound like the mountain lion's roar but much tinier. That's all cats are - midget lions. I'm nobody's midget, baby.
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Spencer Quinn (Dog on It (A Chet and Bernie Mystery, #1))
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I was bullied a lot because I was a midget in this land of giants I lived in. Sometimes, my only weapon was whatever I could throw. I couldn’t be held responsible. I didn’t choose the short life; the short life chose me.
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Nicole Banks (Into Pieces (Shattered Hearts, #2))
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Now you see this one-eyed midget Shouting the word β€œNOW” And you say, β€œFor what reason?” And he says, β€œHow?” And you say, β€œWhat does this mean?” And he screams back, β€œYou’re a cow Give me some milk Or else go home
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Bob Dylan
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I snorted powdered flamingoes while I pondered love. I sat at the bar two hours waiting for my ice on the rocks to melt so I could drink it and leave, but it was like my ex wife’s heartβ€”it was just too frigid to melt. So I called up a midget, buckled myself in on his back, and had him give me a ride home. Ah, but that’s life, no?
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Jarod Kintz (Ah, but that's life, no?)
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He checks the horns. They're small: not truncated like Hellboy's, but wee, budding, trainer-bra efforts. Definitely not the thing that killed Dazza. In demon terms, he's looking at a midget or a waen. He recalls the ten second rule, and though they only clashed for a moment, it was more than enough. He understands. He has the measure. There is no paralysis by fear. There will be no subconscious surrender to superior mental force and aggression. In short, he can take this cunt.
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Christopher Brookmyre (Pandaemonium)
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Here is a key insight for any startup: You may think yourself a puny midget among giants when you stride out into a marketplace, and suddenly confront such a giant via litigation or direct competition. But the reality is that larger companies often have much more to fear from you than you from them. For starters, their will to fight is less than yours. Their employees are mercenaries who don’t deeply care, and suffer from the diffuse responsibility and weak emotional investment of a larger organization. What’s an existential struggle to you is merely one more set of tasks to a tuned-out engineer bored of his own product, or another legal hassle to an already overworked legal counsel thinking more about her next stock-vesting date than your suit. Also, large companies have valuable public brands they must delicately preserve, and which can be assailed by even small companies such as yours, particularly in a tight-knit, appearances-conscious ecosystem like that of Silicon Valley. America still loves an underdog, and you’ll be surprised at how many allies come out of the woodwork when some obnoxious incumbent is challenged by a scrappy startup with a convincing story. So long as you maintain unit cohesion and a shared sense of purpose, and have the basic rudiments of living, you will outlast, outfight, and out-rage any company that sets out to destroy you. Men with nothing to lose will stop at nothing to win.
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Antonio GarcΓ­a MartΓ­nez (Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley)
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I’ve got two Neptunes here,” said Harry after a while, frowning down at his piece of parchment, β€œthat can’t be right, can it?” β€œAaaaah,” said Ron, imitating Professor Trelawney’s mystical whisper, β€œwhen two Neptunes appear in the sky, it is a sure sign that a midget in glasses is being born, Harry.
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J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4))
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Classic Ballet, Keep away, keep building your creaky fairy castles, keep cloning clones and meaningless manners, hang on to your beanstalk ballerinas and their midget male shadows, run yourself out of business with your tons of froufrou and costly clattery toe shoes that ruin all chances for illusions of lightness, keep on crowding the minds of blind balletomanes who prefer dainty poses to the eloquent strength of momentum, who have forgotten or never known the manings of gesture, who would nod their noses to barefoot embargos ("so grab me" spelt backwards). Continue to repolish your stiff technique and to ignore a public that hungers for something other than a bag of tricks and the empty-headedness of surface patterns. Just keep it up, keep imitating yourself, and, , go grow your own dance makers. Come on, don't keep trying to filter modern ones through your so-safe extablishment. We're to be seen undiluted, undistorted, not absorbed by your hollow world like blood into a sponge. Yours truly, A Different Leaf on Our Family Tree
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Paul Taylor (Private Domain: An Autobiography)
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To be honest, I was also upset about what I knew I was heading into. A whole new school where I’d have to make new friends (if I was lucky, which was unlikely) and avoid being stereotyped as a Native American midget (which was probably inevitable). So I was struggling between feeling worried about my mom and feeling sorry for myself, and being angry at her for deserting me and being angry at myself for being so selfish. Although I tried not to show it, my face probably looked like a battlefield that day.
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Joseph Bruchac (Bearwalker)
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Within five minutes of leaving the reunion, I'd undone the double wrapping and eaten all six rugelach, each a snail of sugar-dusted pastry dough, the cinnamon-lined chambers microscopically studded with midget raisins and chopped walnuts. By rapidly devouring mouthful after mouthful of these crumbs whose floury richness - blended of butter and sour cream and vanilla and cream cheese and egg yolk and sugar - I'd loved since childhood, perhaps I'd find vanishing from Nathan what, according to Proust, vanished from Marcel the instant he recognized "the savour of the little madeleine": the apprehensiveness of death. "A mere taste," Proust writes, and "the word 'death' ... [has] ... no meaning for him." So, greedily I ate, gluttonously, refusing to curtail for a moment this wolfish intake of saturated fat, but, in the end, having nothing like Marcel's luck.
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Philip Roth (American Pastoral)
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I’m a good, old-fashioned human, forcibly joined with an x-ray eye and a pneumatic penis because I was too stupid to stop fighting.” β€œNot the damn penis again...” said Thor, writhing on the couch. β€œWhat? I’m proud of it, Thor. I can lift a god damned Volkswagen.” β€œChrist, Mark, now I’m picturing it. And there’s a midget watching you for some reason.
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Eirik Gumeny (Exponential Apocalypse)
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Don't creationists ever wonder about the fact that the paleontologists found ape-like skulls with the 'human leg and foot bones,' rather than the other way around, i.e., human skulls with 'ape leg and foot bones?' . . . Come on, creationists, think about it! Did God hide the human skulls, only leaving behind leg and foot bones belonging to human midgets with misshapen feet, and mix such bones only with the skulls of ape-like creatures with larger cranial capacities than living apes? What a 'kidder' the creationists' God must be.
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Edward T. Babinski
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The worst thing about falling in love with her so early in life was that he’d been an absolute snot at fourteen, at once arrogant and self-pitying. Almost as bad was the fact that he’d been nearly half a foot shorter than she at their first meeting β€”she’d been five foot nine, and he barely five foot four. Though she was only a few weeks older than he was, she’d looked upon him as a childβ€”while he broiled with the heat and anguish of first love. When nothing else garnered him her attention, he turned horrid. She was disgusted by this midget who tried to trick her into broom closets to steal kisses, and he was at once miserable and thrilled. Disgust was better than indifference; anything was better than indifference.
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Sherry Thomas (Tempting the Bride (Fitzhugh Trilogy, #3))
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Listen, guys, fucking around with midgets ain’t no joke. Pound for pound they’re stronger than grizzly bears, and, if you want to know the truth, they happen to scare the living shit out of me. So before I approve this midget-tossing business, you need to find me a game warden who can rein in the little critter if he should go off the deep end. Then we’re gonna need some tranq darts, a pair a handcuffs, a can of Mace—” Wigwam
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Jordan Belfort (The Wolf of Wall Street)
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He was able to find the intensity and beauty that he wanted, in the plung itself. Physical forces in a complicated coalition of gravity, acceleration, and temperature were powerful and intense enough to satisfy him. It made sense. Nothing was as comforting as the enduring purity of elemental forces, and returning to them could not mean defeat. But he never thought that he would die in a bark suit, strapped to a shock pancake, next to an incompetent midget.
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Mark Helprin (Winter's Tale)
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A budget?" He'd expected an explosion.Even, perversely,hoped for one.Margo's tantrums were always so..stimulating.It didn't appear that he was going to be disappointed. "A budget?" she repeated,storming to him. "Of all the unbelievable,bloody nerve.You arrogant son of a bitch. Do you think I'm going to stand here and let you treat me like some sort of brainless bimbo who needs to be told how much she can spend on face powder?" "Face powder." Deliberately, he scanned the papers,took a pen out of his pocket,and made a quick note. "That would come under 'Miscellaneous Luxuries.' I think I've been very generous there. Now,as to your clothing allowance-" "Allowance!" She used both hands to shove him back a step. "Just let me tell you what you can do with your fucking allowance." "Careful,duchess." He brushed the front of his shirt. "Turnbill and Asser." The strangled sound in her throat was the best she could do.If there had been anything at all to throw,she'd have heaved it at his head. "I'd rather be picked apart,alive, by vultures than let you handle the money." "You don't have any money," he began, but she barreled on as she whirled around the room. Watching her, he all but salivated. "I'd rather be gang-raped by midgets, staked naked to a wasp nest,be force-fed garden slugs." "Go three weeks without a manicure?" he put in and watched her hands curl into claws. "You go after my face with those, I'll have to hurt you." "Oh,I hate you." "No,you don't.
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Nora Roberts (Daring to Dream (Dream Trilogy, #1))
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It takes me a while to drag him out, he's got himself stuck to the axle, and by the time I am done and stand over the body something strange has started to happen. The alley's filled with a half-dozen cats, runty little things with their ribs showing and their tails worn high like they're pointing to the moon. I stand there, breathing froth into the snowflakes and watch them gather round me, soft kitty paws, and now and then a patrol car rolls past in the distance. The cats are circling us, tails cocked at the moon, their muzzles bloodied by the tail lights' glow. They are vicious bastards, let me tell you: frost on their whiskers, eyes like cut glass, a half-dozen pairs, on me and the dead man. And then they start licking. Licking at the snow I mean, the blood in the snow, they lap it up like mother's milk. And all the while from their throats, from their whole bodies, there issues this sound, you hear it with your skin, it's like an engine running under your palm. That's when I realize they are purring, man, purring as they feed on the midget's death.
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Dan Vyleta (Pavel & I)
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I was afraid of anyone in a costume. A trip to see Santa might as well have been a trip to sit on Hitler's lap for all the trauma it would cause me. Once, when I was four, my mother and I were in a Sears and someone wearing an enormous Easter Bunny costume headed my way to present me with a chocolate Easter egg. I was petrified by this nightmarish six-foot-tall bipedal pink fake-fur monster with human-sized arms and legs and a soulless, impassive face heading toward me. It waved halfheartedly as it held a piece of candy out in an evil attempt to lure me into its clutches. Fearing for my life, I pulled open the bottom drawer of a display case and stuck my head inside, the same way an ostrich buries its head in the sand. This caused much hilarity among the surrounding adults, and the chorus of grown-up laughter I heard echoing from within that drawer only added to the horror of the moment. Over the next several years, I would run away in terror from a guy in a gorilla suit whose job it was to wave customers into a car wash, a giant Uncle Sam on stilts, a midget dressed like a leprechaun, an astronaut, the Detroit Tigers mascot, Ronald McDonald, Big Bird, Bozo the Clown, and every Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Pluto, Chip and Dale, Uncle Scrooge, and Goofy who walked the streets at Disneyland. Add to this an irrational fear of small dogs that saw me on more than one occasion fleeing in terror from our neighbor's four-inch-high miniature dachschund as if I were being chased by the Hound of the Baskervilles and a chronic case of germ phobia, and it's pretty apparent that I was--what some of the less politically correct among us might call--a first-class pussy.
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Paul Feig (Kick Me: Adventures in Adolescence)
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In Dream Street there are many theatrical hotels, and rooming houses, and restaurants, and speaks, including Good Time Charley's Gingham Shoppe, and in the summer time the characters I mention sit on the stoops or lean against the railings along Dream Street, and the gab you hear sometimes sounds very dreamy indeed. In fact, it sometimes sounds very pipe-dreamy. Many actors, male and female, and especially vaudeville actors, live in the hotels and rooming houses, and vaudeville actors, both male and female, are great hands for sitting around dreaming out loud about how they will practically assassinate the public in the Palace if ever they get a chance. Furthermore, in Dream Street are always many hand-bookies and horse players, who sit on the church steps on the cool side of Dream Street in the summer and dream about big killings on the races, and there are also nearly always many fight managers, and sometimes fighters, hanging out in front of the restaurants, picking their teeth and dreaming about winning championships of the world, although up to this time no champion of the world has yet come out of Dream Street. In this street you see burlesque dolls, and hoofers, and guys who write songs, and saxophone players, and newsboys, and newspaper scribes, and taxi drivers, and blind guys, and midgets, and blondes with Pomeranian pooches, or maybe French poodles, and guys with whiskers, and night-club entertainers, and I do not know what all else. And all of these characters are interesting to look at, and some of them are very interesting to talk to, although if you listen to several I know long enough, you may get the idea that they are somewhat daffy, especially the horse players.
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Damon Runyon (The Short Stories of Damon Runyon - Volume I - The Bloodhounds of Broadway)