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  There was no doubt about the loss I have mentioned; all could see that page 13 was not there. In vain a second handling of every sheet, the one so numbered was not to be found. Page 14 met the eye on the top of the pile, and page 12 finished it off at the bottom, but no page 13 in between, or anywhere else. Where had it vanished, and through whose agency had this misadventure occurred? No one could say...                                                           --  from "Missing: Page Thirteen," Anna Katherine Green

I'm fifty thousand times more intelligent than you and even I don't know the answer. It gives me a headache just trying to think down to your level.      -- Marvin the Paranoid Android in Douglas Adams' The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy

I was following in the exquisite footsteps of Edna St. Vincent Millay, unhappily in my own horrible sneakers.                                                     -- Dorothy Parker

     " An ingot of lead-gray light fell through the moted air onto the empty roped square on the central platform."  -- Ross Macdonald, The Way Some People Die   " It seemed to me then that evil was a female quality, a poison that women secreted and transmitted to men like disease.'     -- Ross Macdonald, The Moving Target

"What do you look forward to most in the day?" she once asked her grandmother. "Going to bed," was the reply. "And filling my two hot water bottles."                                                                Daphne du Maurier, "The Pond"

"A human dynamo" is the name I think up for myself. -- Robert Benchley            --  "How To Get Things Done," from Chips Off the Old Benchley