No, Jeff Wilkinson, I'm not tired of your comments. Keep 'em comin'.
You have proven that one does not have to look far to find errors. By my count you've found four in my writing, including one in an editorial in the print edition. Darn it. Yes, it should be "whoever is higher than HE." Boy, do I feel stupid.
You were correct the first time on the quote. Blondie (Clint Eastwood) says it to Tuco (Eli Wallach) in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
Related trivia tidbit: Wallach is "the ugly" in the movie but "the bad" in the trailer. Trivia question: Who portrays Angel Eyes, "the bad" in the movie and "the ugly" in the trailer?
A favorite line of mine from a book is the ending of Great Expectations, which so impressed me when I first read it 35 years ago that it has stuck in my mind ever since (or at least a close approximation): "...the evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her." I actually remembered it "... was not a shadow of her parting," but I can't find that version.
Of course, this was the revised ending. In the original ending (is that anything like a final beginning?), Pip and Estella do part, only to meet once more on the street when they are old.
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Why that would be Lee Van Cleef. When I was a kid I was always reading about Ninjas and the first time I saw him was as "The Master" from a very short lived TV series that I think was watched by only me. He was always "That Ninja Guy" to me onward, even when he was in the Old West. :-)
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