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When a man opens the car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.
(Prince Philip (b. 1921), British Duke of Edinburgh. Today (London, March 2, 1988).)
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Strangely, it is the pig himself becomes
The god inside the car:
(Roy Fuller (b. 1912), British poet, novelist. Autobiography of a Lungworm (l. 25-26). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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The Star that bids the Shepherd fold,
Now the top of Heav'n doth hold,
And the gilded Car of Day,
His glowing Axle doth allay
In the steep Atlantick stream,
(John Milton (1608-1674), British poet. Comus; a Masque Presented at Ludlow Castle (l. 93-97). . .
The Complete Poetry of John Milton. John T. Shawcross, ed. (1963, rev. ed. 1971) Doubleday.)
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Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
(P.J. (Patrick Jake) O'Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. "Why God Is a Republican and Santa Claus Is a Democrat," preface, Parliament of Whores (1991).)
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My long hair was tucked up under a cap
I'd left the earring in the car.
(Gary Snyder (b. 1930), U.S. poet. I Went into the Maverick Bar (l. 5-6). . .
No Nature; New and Selected Poems [Gary Snyder]. (1992) Pantheon Books.)
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Maybe you don't care if you kill yourself, but I rather you didn't when I'm in the car.
(Blake Edwards (b. 1922), director, screenwriter. Cory (Tony Curtis), Mister Cory, admonishing a woman for her reckless driving (1957).)
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What new thoughts are suggested by seeing a face of country quite familiar, in the rapid movement of the rail-road car!
(Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. Nature, ch. 6 (1836, revised and repr. 1849).)
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The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.
(Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980), Canadian communications theorist. Understanding Media, ch. 22 (1964).)
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