“I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.”
Louise Brooks (1906–1985) American dancer and actress
Lulu in Hollywood (1982)
“I seem to have excalibured this knife.”
— Diana Wynne Jones, book Enchanted Glass
Source: Enchanted Glass
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