# Where are these quotes from?!

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 25, 2000, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-these-quotes-from/13108 "2000-01-25T20:45:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![ThisYearsGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@ThisYearsGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisYearsGirl)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2000, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-these-quotes-from/13108/1 "2000-01-25T20:45:00Z")

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I’ve had these two quotes running through my brain for the past week, and I can’t remember where I heard them. The first one I’m pretty sure is from a book “I was born in this town, I was raised in this town. Hell, I’ve been hit by a car on this street, twice!”. Someone I asked said it’s from a JD Salinger book, but I’ve read all this books and I don’t remember it. The other one I know is from a movie–“What would Ed Wood do? Stock footage!!” Someone help me pinpoint these quotes.

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**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2000, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-these-quotes-from/13108/2 "2000-01-26T19:25:00Z")

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Sorry, I can’t help with that quote; but can someone identify the quotees for these quotes I would like to track down?  
“From the rock-bound coast of Maine to the sunny shores of Cali-forn-eye-ay”  
“Let me live by the side of the road and be friendly with men”  
“Lo, these many years”

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**Author:** ![Bucky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Bucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bucky)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2000, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-these-quotes-from/13108/3 "2000-01-26T21:31:00Z")

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The Ed Wood reference sounds like it might be from the Mystery Science Theatre 3000 group.

Bucky

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Oh, well. We can always make more killbots.

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**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2000, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-these-quotes-from/13108/4 "2000-01-26T22:03:00Z")

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That first quote of yours sounds like something that Grandpa might have said on the Simpsons.

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Chaim Mattis Keller  
[ckeller@kozmo.com](mailto:ckeller@kozmo.com)

“Sherlock Holmes once said that once you have eliminated the  
impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be  
the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible.  
The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it that the merely improbable lacks.”  
– Douglas Adams’s Dirk Gently, Holistic Detective