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What did you do, wake up this morning and say, "Today, I'm going to ruin a man's life"?
— Jack Colton · Romancing the Stone
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker angrily accuses the listener of destroying a man's life, sarcastically imagining they woke that morning and casually resolved to do it. The mock quotation sharpens the charge of cruel carelessness, implying the harm was done without thought, and carries real hurt beneath the sarcasm.
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