“Don't be ridiculous, Charlie, people love the parents who beat their kids in department stores. It's the ones who just let their kids wreak havoc that everybody hates.”

—  Christopher Moore, book A Dirty Job

Source: A Dirty Job

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American writer of comic fantasy 1957

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