“It hurt like the worst ass-kicking he'd ever gotten. And he'd gotten plenty.”
John Green book An Abundance of Katherines
Colin Singleton, p. 7
An Abundance of Katherines (2006)
“What better emblem for our nation, after all, than a level playing field, shaped like an octagon, where people of diverse cultural ass-kicking traditions can meet as equals and immediately start kicking ass.”
June 11, 2007
The Areas of My Expertise (2005), Appearances on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
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