Heart Punch

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    The “sayings” of a community, its proverbs, are its characteristic comment upon life; they imply its history, suggest its attitude toward the world and its way of accepting life. Such an idiom makes the finest language any writer can have; and he can never get it with a notebook. He himself must be able to think and feel in that speech—it is a gift from heart to heart.
    Willa Cather (1873–1947)

    Lilly Dillon: How’d you get that punch in the stomach, Roy?
    Roy Dillon: I tripped on a chair.
    Lilly Dillon: Get off the grift, Roy.
    Roy Dillon: Why?
    Lilly Dillon: You haven’t got the stomach for it.
    Donald E. Westlake (b. 1933)