“I don't want to go through life as a Wonder Wheel murderer!”
Richard Pryor (1940–2005) American stand-up comedian, actor, social critic, writer, and MC
The Toy (1982)
“Ez fer war, I call it murder—
There you hev it plain an' flat;
I don't want to go no furder
Than my Testyment fer that.”
No. 1, st. 2
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series I (1848)
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