“Dear popular boy I know you're used to getting everything so easily/ A stranger to the concept of reciprocity
People honor boys like you in this society”

— Alanis Morissette

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Canadian-American singer-songwriter 1974

Buddy de Sylva (1895–1950) American musician

Song: Sonny Boy (de Sylva wrote the words; Lew Brown and Ray Henderson wrote the music; Al Jolson insisted on being credited too)

“Boy, you just can't kill people like you used to”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: School's Out—Forever

“A pig is a pig," said the stranger, "and a pig-boy is a pig-boy.”

Lloyd Alexander The Chronicles of Prydain

Source: The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book II: The Black Cauldron (1965), Chapter 1 (Ellidyr)

“Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.”

Arthur Miller book Death of a Salesman

Ben
Death of a Salesman (1949)
Source: Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

“We cannot fathom why people would stand across the street, easily a hundred feet away, when they could be so close, near us.
‘Suckers.’ I tell Toph, thumbing toward those watching from so far away. It is important, I feel, that the boy knows what suckers look like.”

Dave Eggers (1970) memoirist, novelist, short story writer, editor, publisher

A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius (2000)

“You're a smart boy. Or if you're not, you ought to be.”

Cherie Priest book Boneshaker

Source: Boneshaker (2009), p. 327

“Events, dear boy, events.”

Harold Macmillan (1894–1986) British politician

Response to a journalist when asked what is most likely to blow governments off course.
The quote is also given as "Events, my dear boy, events", with the word "my", but it may never have been uttered at all.
[What they didn't say: a book of misquotations, Knowles, Elizabeth M., Oxford University Press, 2006, vi, 33]
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