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Some great minor masterpieces:
Bony Maronie
Surfin' Bird
Lonesome
Town
My favorite shot in basketball:
The free throw
A couple of people I wouldn't
mind being for a minute:
Roy Acuff
Walter Matthau
Leonard
Cohen
The best cure for the blues:
Ginger root
Some places I wouldn't want
to go back to:
Auschwitz
Casino de Paris, Marseille
The Horse & Hounds Tavern, Edinburgh
Things I'll always miss:
Sweet kisses from the Black Queen
Trebuki Bay at sunset,
white geese in the North Carolina sky,
four angels blowing marple trumpets in Times Square
Some things I'd rather forget:
Spaghetti at the airport in Helsinki,
Lady Godiva at the cemetary in New Orleans,
Girl with the horse's head in Mexico
How to let her down easy:
Tell her you're down and out
Two truths that aren't always
true:
God helps those who help themselves
Actors get up at 5 a.m.
The furthest thing from my
mind:
Perpetual youth and St. James Infirmary
The nearest faraway places:
Cuba
Isle of Pathos
Games I play:
Crazy 8's, Dominoes, Chess, Hearts,
Fan-tan, He say, she say
One last favor I'd like to
ask:
"Resist no evil, but overcome evil
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