Quotes by Henry Slesar

"This is the Government Educational Service. Your son, Richard M. Jordan, Classification 600-115, has completed the Government examination. We regret to inform you that his intelligence quotient has exceeded the Government regulation, according to Rule 84, Section 5, of the New Code."
Henry Slesar
"It’s nothing. It tastes like peppermint."
Henry Slesar
"Dad,” he said, “how far away is the sun?” “Five thousand miles,” his father said."
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Henry Slesar (June 12, 1927 – April 2, 2002) was an American author and playwright. He is famous for his use of irony and twist endings. After reading Slesar's "M Is for the Many" in Ellery Queen's My...