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Betting Shop

"What old school? This is my life."

-Sorry about yesterday, I was ill! -You didn't look ill when I saw you at the races! -You didn't see me after the fifth leg!

Stephen Spender.

Airport

'Bad dog, stop doing the crossword.'

"See - that's how he's able to write all those plays."

Mature poet surrounded by young artists passing mature artist surrounded by young poets.

Nikolai Alekseevich Klyuev

Gore Vidal

One book... One book... One book...

F. Scott Fitzgerald

"What the? ... Where’d the? ... How’d ya? ... Get down here!"

Toni Morrison

'Not only is he a good hunting dog he's a good watch dog.'

Scale indicates the value of books.

Gentrification of the Fridge.

I brake for anything discarded that I can bring to the Antiques Roadshow

"Drinking home alone, I think he may have a problem."

Here Lies P_T_R W_I_L__S: Inventor of the Crossword Puzzle

"Your father and I were hoping for something a little less artisanal."

Wilhelm Dilthey

"I've gone for a retro phone."

Gobbledygookologist

'Ma'am, I think I already see the problem with your cuckoo clock.'

'Oh, we're just here so Rusty can shop around for a new fence to dig under.'

"They just don't make 'em like Doc Malone anymore!"

'Didn't I read your last book, find it absolutely disgusting and vow never to read another, or was that someone else?'

"Honestly larry, I don't want a bronze Adonis. I much prefer a burnt umber twiglet"

"Just a signature and my alimony check."

"Thank you, Slightly More Correct Wording Man!!"

"I told you not to write in that wet cement!"

Whistler priming his mother before painting her.

Stores of Mystery

William Shakespeare.