Chris Rock (1965) American comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer, film producer, and director
Kill the Messenger (2008)
Here's Your Sign Live! (2004)
Chris Rock (1965) American comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer, film producer, and director
Kill the Messenger (2008)
Kurt Vonnegut Happy Birthday, Wanda June
"Wanda June"
Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1970)
Context: Hello, I am Wanda June. Today was going to be my birthday, but I was hit by an ice-cream truck before I could have my party. I am dead now. I am in Heaven. That is why my parents did not pick up my cake at the bakery. I am not mad at the ice-cream truck driver, even though he was drunk when he hit me. It didn't hurt much. It wasn't even as bad as the sting of a bumblebee. I am really happy here! It's so much fun. I'm glad the driver was drunk. If he hadn't been, I might not have gone to Heaven for years and years and years. I would have had to go to high school first, and then beauty college. I would have had to get married and have babies and everything. Now I can just play and play and play. Any time I want any pink cotton candy I can have some. Everybody up here is happy — the animals and the dead soldiers and people who went to the electric chair and everything. They're all glad for whatever sent them here. Nobody is mad. We're all too busy playing shuffleboard. So if you think of killing somebody, don't worry about it. Just go ahead and do it. Whoever you do it to should kiss you for doing it. The soldiers up here just love the shrapnel and the tanks and the bayonets and the dum dums that let them play shuffleboard all the time — and drink beer.
“When a man says, "Get out of my house! what would you have with my wife?"”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
there is no answer to be made.
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 43.
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Burns
Manny Ramirez (1972) Dominican-American baseball player
In Ian Browne, "Manny cements his place in history"
Attributed
Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist
Jennifer Romanello, Chapter 30, p. 323
2000s, The Guardian (2003)