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Megan Burns of Cazenovia was the winner of 12. The Secret Word - the answer was eyes.

About the only thing in my favor was that truth is invariably stranger than fiction. In this case the truth was so ridiculous you could look right at it and not take it seriously.
-Kinky Friedman

Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.
-Samuel Johnson

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
-Mark Twain

Reminds me of my safari in Africa; somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days, we had to live on nothing but food and water.
-W.C. Fields

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.
-Garrison Keillor

He pulls himself up on the float and stands panting in the sun, his glistening white young body inhaling the light, the sun healing my scars my cracked bones my lacerated soul, the sun powering my loins warming them into a stir. I toss my hair back, smooth it back, shake the water from my arms, open my eyes.
-E.L. Doctorow

The Clues:
1. One how where what thing      
2. More dim than bright
3. Adds up

Be the first one with the correct answer and win a free book, “Not Your Father’s Shorts Vol. 1.” Reviews are still tumbling in and people like it - go figure. If you don’t win it, you can buy it by clicking on the box to the right.

It might have been going on for some time but now they could hear the knocking on the door. Sonny quickly buttoned his trousers, meanwhile blocking the door so that it could not be opened.
-Mario Puzo

As I walked away, I was full of thoughtfulness; what had been incidentally revealed to me of Captain Ahab filled me with a certain wild vagueness of painfulness concerning him.
-Herman Melville

Grandfather put down his knife and fork and looked around the table. I remember one time we ran out of meat- his voice dropped to a curious low sing-song, dropped into a tonal groove the story had worn for itself. There was no buffalo, no antelope, not even rabbits. The hunters couldn’t even shoot a coyote. That was the time for the leader to be on the watch. I was the leader and I kept my eyes open. Know why? Well just the minute the people began to get hungry they’d start slaughtering the team oxen.
-John Steinbeck

Watch out: It is surely a method of involving you gradually, capturing you in the story before you realize it - a trap. Or perhaps the author still has not made up his mind, just as you, a reader, for that matter, are not sure what you would most like to read; whether it is the arrival at an old station, which would give you a sense of going back, a renewed concern with lost time and places, or else a flashing of lights and sounds, which would give you the sense of being alive today, in the world where people today believe it is a pleasure to be alive.
-Italo Calvino                     

The clues
1. Pince-nez makes four
2. Tigers’ and needles’
3. Nonays

 
-Cats are smarter than dogs. You can’t get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.                                                                                         -Jeff Valdez
-Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.
                                                                                                    -Phyllis Diller
-Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.                                                                                   - Mark Twain
-I have reasons for believing that you’ve heard the story; but I wasn’t playing for my own amusement, it was for the sake of the children, because they couldn’t think of anything to do by themselves.
                                                                                                   -Fyodor Dostoevsky
-The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
                                                                                                    -Mohammed
-But the skrewts, it transpired, did not hibernate, and did not appreciate being forced into pillow-lined boxes and nailed in. Hagrid was soon yelling, “Don’ panic, now, don’ panic!” while the skrewts rampaged around the pumpkin patch, now strewn with the smoldering wreckage of the boxes.
                                                                                                    - J. K. Rowling
-When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action; they rented out my room.
                                                                                                     - Woody Allen
THE CLUES
1. Uncle Ben’s hooch
2. Add rum for backbone
3. Benefit or well-being

-His excitement blew out of his eyes in stabs of fiendish light. He rolled his neck in spastic ecstasy. He lisped, he writhed, he flopped, he moaned, he howled, he fell back in despair. He could hardly get a word out, he was so excited with life.

                                                                                    -Jack Kerouac

-I’d like to show the fans in Japan, when Mr. Steinbrenner spends that kind of money, he wants results.

                                                                                                -Joe Torre

-The United States is not soundproof-you might think that nothing can reach those tens of thousands living behind the wall of dollar-but your fear can bring in the truth.

                                                                                                -Bob Dylan

-Then I saw that my body had all sorts of little tricks, such as making my hands go limp at the crucial second, which would save it, time and again, whereas if I had the whole say, I would be dead in a flash.

                                                                                                -Sylvia Plath

-The tableau strikes him as sadly burlesque; the all-American breakfast nooky; the religious motif; the way she cuddles the book so close she might have been following the text with a nipple. Something about the scene ludicrous and insulting, like the taunt of a thumb ribbing you.

                                                                                                -Ken Kesey

   THE CLUES

Spoons

Host at Casablanca

Nestles

Win a free copy of “Not Your Father’s Shorts” by being the first one to email the correct answer. cazindependent@gmail.com

The last winner was Timothy Miller attending grad school in California. The answer was base.
The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.
-Robert Frost

I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle, even though it wasn’t mine.
-Rita Rudner

Silence is the music of the gods. Music is the laughter of the gods. And laughter is the silence of the gods.
- Ice W

While I spoke, there came a marked change over the countenance of the sleep-walker. The eyes rolled themselves slowly open, the pupils disappearing upwardly; the skin generally assumed a cadaverous hue, resembling not so much parchment as white paper.
- Edgar Allen Poe

Glynis was standing there stark naked, her purse over her arm, grinning with huge ravenous incisors. Mabel had time to scream, but only once.
- Stephen King

A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
- Herman Melville

The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent not of passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity. Beets are deadly serious.
- Tom Robbins

The beat goes on.
- Sonny and Cher

 
Clues:
1. Find the sleeping tenderfoots
2. Past, future or present, the hip one
3. Seven points in Scrabble

First person (and maybe the second) to email the answer gets a free copy of “Not Your Father’s Shorts Vol. 1.” Read the clues at the bottom; they will lead you to a word in one of the quotes.

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
- Maria Robinson
 
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
- Robert Heinlein

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
- Mignon McLaughlin

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children…to leave the world a better place…to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.
- Andre Gide

It’s not what we don’t know that hurts; it’s what we know that ain’t so.
- Will Rogers

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
- Oscar Wilde

I base my fashion taste on what doesn’t itch.
- Gilda Radner

For a single woman, preparing for company means wiping the lipstick off the milk carton.
- Elayne Boosler
Clues:
1. Ph/7
2. What daddy sang
3. foundation

In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.
-Michael Jackson

I can’t stop crying over the sad news. I have always admired Michael Jackson. The world has lost one of the greats, but his music will live on forever! My heart goes out to his three children and other members of his family. God bless.
-Madonna

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