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'Home Alone' was a movie, not an alibi.
Some people have an identity. I have an alibi. I have a shadow self.
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.
People always ask me, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' Well, I don't have an alibi.
You know, at parties, people always ask, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' Well, I don't have an alibi!
It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.
The public wouldn't like the perfect umpire in every game. It would kill off baseball's greatest alibi - 'We was robbed.'
Sue Grafton's 'A Is for Alibi', the 1982 novel that introduced the world to private detective Kinsey Millhone, wasn't seen as the pioneering achievement we now know it to be.
Morality is the least of my concerns. To me, morality in a society that - however moral its pose - is hierarchically organized is simply a lie, an alibi for the inequalities that exist in society.
In the right circumstances, I'm a big fan of eating alone. Often, on a Sunday evening, I go to a yoga class whose charm is largely that it gives me an alibi to avoid cooking family supper for once. I return to have boiled eggs and soldiers in silence with a book. Bliss.
By the end of 1982, the game changed. Muller published her second Sharon McCone novel, Sue Grafton introduced Kinsey Millhone in 'A Is for Alibi', and the floor was now open - whether some liked it or not - for more women to claim the tropes of private eye fiction for their own.
