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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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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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Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
(Erma Bombeck (20th century), U.S. humorist and author. As quoted in Woman to Woman, by Julia Gilden and Mark Riedman (1994).)
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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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behold
The approach of him whom none believes,
Whom all believe that all believe,
A pagan in a varnished car.
(Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), U.S. poet. "The Man with the Blue Guitar.")
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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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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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Professor Fate: My apologies. There's a polar bear in our car.
(Arthur Ross. Professor Fate (Jack Lemmon), The Great Race, after he and Maximillian (Peter Falk) jump through the roof of Leslie's (Tony Curtis) car (1965).)
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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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