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«Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.»

«Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. - A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.»

«I'm not even thinking about passing McGwire. The season will be over September twenty-seventh. Mark will go home, and I will go to the playoffs.»

«I think on the seventh day, God was running around, going, ?Oh, my God! What haven?t I?? Rwanda! I better create Rwanda! Sorry, haven?t quite done that? The Tower of Pisa! Oh, it?s leaning? Oh, shi? done! Toilets in French camping sites? there we go. English football hooligans? there we go, whatever that is? Mrs. Thatcher?s heart? there we go? oh, fuck that! I know, I?ll put a stone in, that?ll work! There we go??The next week, I think, people are coming back, going, ?Rwanda doesn?t work very well; infrastructure?s fucked.?»

«I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.»

«Now it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, and the princes of the king, even ten men with him, came unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they did eat bread together in Mizpah.»

«For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.»

«If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.»

«In the thirty and seventh year of Joash king of Judah began Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned sixteen years.»

«I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth, the Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct.»