I was giving my Facebook profile some attention the other day and I couldn’t think of any “favorite quotes”. This struck me as kind of a shame because I know I have read a lot of fantastic quotes. Actually there was one great quote I did remember word for word:

“I am gonna march you over to the zoo and feed you to the yak.”

This was a line in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and it was spoken by the character Mag Wildwood, who was quite intoxicated (and apparently cantankerous) at the time. Maybe it isn’t the one quote I should remember—after all I did graduate from UCSB with a BA in English—but at least IMDb recognizes it is a memorable quote from the movie.

So since working on my FB profile I have had my ears and eyes out for great quotes, sayings, and phrases. And yesterday I found one I have liked ever since I first heard it: Loose Lips Sink Ships. It was written on a poster size piece of paper that was pinned over the doorway at a friend’s house in Oakland. It’s an Oaksterdam house, if you get what I mean.

Anyway, I never knew that

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