Emacs Remove Smart Quotes & Sayings

And may the Fates smile upon you .. — Rick Riordan

If your life is going to be dictated by what's comfortable, your life will stink. — Laura Schlessinger

Finish the damn book. Nothing else matters. Stop second guessing yourself and write it through to the end. You don't know what you have until you've finished it. You don't know how to fix it until it's all down on the page. — Lauren Beukes

Given a limited budget, the most effective expenditure of funds to improve a street would probably be on trees. — Allan Jacobs

There are no two words in the English language more harmful than good job, — J.K. Simmons

I have long understood that climate change is not only an environmental issue - it is a humanitarian, economic, health, and justice issue as well. — Frances Beinecke

Children have the resilience to outlive their sufferings, if given a chance. — Ishmael Beah

. . . I am in my hermitage perhaps 70 to 80 percent of the time. I relish and enjoy time with others. I have been called "the sociable hermit." Ironically, lengthy solitude often invokes a verbal avalanche when I find myself with a dear and treasured friend, or at a rare social occasion. . . . Solitaries, I suppose, are not always introverts. — Barbara Erakko Taylor

Allow me to offer my congratulations on the truly admirable skill you have shown in keeping clear of the mark. Not to have hit once in so many trials, argues the most splendid talents for missing. — Thomas De Quincey

The first priority of the Republican majority is the security of Americans. — Kevin McCarthy

We never asked to bow. Who is he to say Red and Browns toiling to death is for the greater good? Who is he to say Pink children being harvested for rape, Obsidians and Grays for battle, is a necessity? How can he sit there and say that he alone knows what is best for me, for my family? It's not his right — Pierce Brown

Streets full of water. Please Advise. — Robert Benchley

In another show of America's force to the world, when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan, Carter responded by boycotting the Olympics. And thus was a fearsome blow struck at little fourteen-year-old American girls who had spent their lives training for the Olympics. — Ann Coulter