Wonder Boys Sentence Starters
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“Turn off the light, please.”
“So. I guess we just divorce our spouses, marry each other, and have this baby, right? Simple.”
“Every woman in some way desires to be Marilyn Monroe.”
“You didn’t tell me you were a writer.”
“Double Dickel on the rocks.”
“It’s just… for good luck. Some people carry rabbits’ feet…”
“Couldn’t you have just pulled him off me?”
“What are we going to do with…it?”
“I don’t know. I’m still trying to figure out how to tell the Chancellor I murdered her husband’s dog.”
“Trust me, [Name], when the family pet’s been assassinated, the owner doesn’t want to hear one of her students was the trigger man.”
“Now that is a big trunk. It holds a tuba, a suitcase, a dead dog, and a garment bag almost perfectly.”
“What do we have here? This looks like… that’s our old friend Mr. Codeine.”
“That should take the old pinch out of the ankle. Want one?”
“You’re fine, all right, you’re fit as a fucking fiddle.”
“In the shape that he’s in, you could stand him up in the garage next to the snow shovels and he’d be all right.”
“C’mon, teach, I want you to dance with me.”
“Can we go now, den mother?”
“I’m lookin’ at you, fella!”
“That’s my car, motherfucker!”
“You could always drive over him.”
“I just got my hood jumped on.”
“Is all that stuff true about Errol Flynn? How he used to put paprika on his dick? To make it, you know, like more stimulating for the chick?”
“I guess there’s a story behind that.”
“Do yourself a favor, hide.”
“I can’t believe you hung up on me, you dick.”
“I’m not gonna draw you a map.”
“It’s times like these that you have to do your own navigating.”
“Someone jumped on your car with their butt! You can see the outline of a butt!”
“You want one? They’re incredible. Incredible!”
“Smoke the rest of that joint, you can start chewing on the box.”
“It’s the kind of house you’d like to wake up in on Christmas morning.”
“I’m gonna need you to shimmy right through there.”
“Feels really good in here.”
“Even though [name] and I were not exactly what you’d call simpatico, that’s no reason he should’ve taken two in the chest.”
“What does it matter what I think? What does it matter what anyone thinks?”
“Books, they don’t mean anything, not to anybody, not anymore.”
“At the bus station, they have these cheese sandwiches. They’re pretty good. It’s better if you take me now. That way, [Name] won’t get my spot.”
“[Name], go get us a table, will ya?”
“I’m not letting the most talented writer in my class eat some week-old cheese sandwich, okay?”
“I’m a teacher. I’m not a Holiday Inn.”
“Sometimes, people just need to be rescued.”
“Does that sound like anyone we know?”
“I believe you. That’s why we’re here. Now go get dressed.”
“Just once I wanna know if the little bastard’s telling the truth.”
“I’m in love with your [spouse].”
“I’m not feeling very happy with you right now.”
“Christ, here comes the puberty police now!”
“It’s been a long time since someone wrote a really good book in jail.”
“I think I might have said I was in love with you.”
“I could be wrong, but it sort of reads in places like you didn’t make any choices. At all.”
“I was just wondering if it might not be different if… if when you wrote you weren’t always… under the influence.”
“I know you. Double Dickel on the rocks. I never forget a drink.”
“I never forget a [Name].”
“Good to know I’m still talented at something.”
“Keep that motor running.”
“I take it back. Shoot him.”
“Maybe, you know, in a sense, it’s for the best.”
“In my experience signs are usually a little more subtle.”
“Man, what in the fuck the matter with you?”
“What is done is done! I don’t wanna hear about it anymore, okay?”
“Go inside, cupcake! He’s got a gun!”
“Do you like to get high?”
“Are you crazy!? Don’t ya see the condition my girl’s in!?”
“I’ll tell you the problem. You behind the wheel, that’s the problem.”
“That book of yours must have been one nutty ride.”
“As long as it looks like her, I really don’t care. Know what I’m saying?”
“Would you mind explaining to me what you just did?”
“Of course, it does help if you know where you wanna go.”
“Why did you keep writing this book if you didn’t even know what it was about?”
“There’s only one way to get rid of a temptation, and that’s to yield to it.”
“All influence is immoral.”
“Because the aim of life is self-development, to realize one’s nature perfectly. That’s what we’re here for.”
“Improvise. You’re pretty good at that.”
