The more-than-casual observer will notice my curse here...mainly that it's always the married (with children) women who heap praise on my head
The answer is...a little of both. A good book/series deserves re-reading from time to time, so I tend to refresh my memory on some of them. But a classic line will stick with you regardless (hence, the birth of the sound-byte in politics). The main difference is that most people don't read alot anymore...they can just as easily quote lines from movies, though.
"I say, you wouldn't happen to have a bit of bat guano on you, would you, old boy?"
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