“Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter
“Numbersign questionmark you" and "Asterisk exclamation point the world.”
— Daniel Handler, book Why We Broke Up
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