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I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes
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"I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes"

- Patton Oswalt

About this Quote

This quote is a play on words. The phrase "I had an unique inside me" is usually made use of to describe someone that feels they have a tale to inform or something to express creatively. In this quote, comedian Patton Oswalt is utilizing that expression as a setup and afterwards overturning it with the punchline "however I paid 3 sailors to defeat it out of me with steel pipes." The ramification is that Oswalt is not actually referring to a literal novel inside him that required to be literally beaten out, yet rather he's speaking about a need to create a charming story that he really feels humiliated or embarrassed of. By claiming he paid sailors to defeat it out of him, Oswalt is making a joke concerning strongly repressing his own imaginative impulses due to the fact that he feels they're not masculine or hard sufficient.

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Patton Oswalt This quote is written / told by Patton Oswalt somewhere between January 27, 1969 and today. He was a famous Comedian from USA. The author also have 14 other quotes.

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