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Johnny Apple's Bartlett's EntryIntroducing a Chatterbox dictionary of quotations.

By Timothy Noah
Posted Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2003, at 1:17 PM ET

"Slurp, slurp. Yum, yum."
—R.W. Apple, Jr., "Snacker's Paradise: Devouring Singapore's Endless Supper," in the Sept. 10 New York Times.

Got an entry suitable for Bartlett's? Chatterbox seeks quotations by notables defining themselves (inadvertently) for posterity. The statements must be lapidary, self-parodistic, and accessible via the Web. E-mail quotations and URLs to . This series will appear irregularly.

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