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Whenever I drive I try to go as fast as I can...You don't have to worry about things like blood coagulation or anything, and can die without any regrets.

- Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore)

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What is a Zabars?

- Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot

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I’ll not budge an inch.

William Shakespeare in response to premature honking. (The Taming of the Shrew)

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Why not frighten them?

John Gardener on jaywalkers, Grendel

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People don’t pay much attention to anything unless you give them reason to.

Erin Morgenstern on the etiquette of honking, The Night Circus

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Whenever you’re wrong, admit it; Whenever you’re right, shut up.

Ogden Nash on giving directions to the driver, A Word to Husbands

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There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

F. Scott Fitzgerald on the demographic breakdown of drivers, The Great Gatsby

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I needed to see you. And touch you. And just… know.

Ally Carter to her GPS, Only the Good Spy Young

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Don't touch me; I'll die if you touch me.

Vladamir Nabokov, Lolita

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Neither can live while the other survives.

J. K. Rowling on going first at a four-way stop, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.

Charles Kuralt

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Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.

Shel Silverstein on driver's ed

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We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.

Lois Lowry on automatic transmission, The Giver

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But then, I suppose, when with the benefit of hindsight one begins to search one’s past for such ‘turning points’, one is apt to start seeing them everywhere.

Kazuo Ishiguro on missed exits, The Remains of the Day

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When you strike a king, you must kill him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson on the financial side of hit and runs.

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Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

Mary Shelley on confidence behind the wheel, Frankenstein

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I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over.

Kur Vonnegut