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Rip Van Winkle
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  • I'm like that old man with the beard, Rip Van Winkle.†  (source)
  • The greatest change a suddenly awakened Rip Van Winkle would have noticed was a hushed expectancy, a mental glancing-over-the-shoulder, as mankind waited for the Overlords to show themselves and to step down from their gleaming ships.†  (source)
  • Listen to me, March, that old Rip van Winkle conked out on purpose.†  (source)
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  • The story of Rip van Winkle is an example of the delicate case of the returning hero.†  (source)
  • Only I thought that the Rip Van Winkle story was all wrong.†  (source)
  • Well, the clerk wakes a nice young bell hop—fine lad—not a day over seventy-nine years old—fought at the Battle of Gettysburg and doesn't know it's over yet—thought I was one of the Confederates, I guess, from the way he looked at me—and Rip van Winkle took me up to something—I found out afterwards they called it a room, but first I thought there'd been some mistake—I thought they were putting me in the Salvation Army collection-box!†  (source)
  • "Very good," returned Hurstwood, "only it's the same old thing, 'Rip Van Winkle.'†  (source)
  • That spring Lena went with me to see Joseph Jefferson in 'Rip Van Winkle,' and to a war play called 'Shenandoah.'†  (source)
  • He played "Rip Van Winkle."†  (source)
  • Times grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as years of matrimony rolled on.†  (source)
  • All those years I'd drifted along too glassy and insulated for any kind of reality to push through: a delirium which had spun me along on its slow, relaxed wave since childhood, high and lying on the shag carpet in Vegas laughing at the ceiling fan, only I wasn't laughing any more, Rip van Winkle wincing and holding his head on the ground about a hundred years too late.†  (source)
  • Rip van Winkle never knew what he had experienced; his return was a joke.†  (source)
  • I could be Rip Van Winkle.†  (source)
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