shotgun quotes

As American as a sawed-off shotgun.

-Parker, Dorothy ne¤  e Rothschild
Of Dashiell Hammett. Quoted in Marion Meade Dorothy Parker (1988).

[He] reckoned a body could reform the old man with a shotgun, maybe, but he didn't know no other way.

-Twain, Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens
  JudgeThatcher's opinion of Pap.TheAdventures of Huckleberry Finn, ch.5.

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