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I let it ring. I wanted to breathe for a few minutes, and I could think of nothing that couldn't wait. Besides, I had paid almost $50 for an answering machine. Let it earn its keep.

Jeff Lindsay
Thinking, Waiting, Machines
Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.104, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
I let it ring. I wanted to breathe for a few minutes, and I could think of nothing that couldn't wait. Besides, I had paid almost $50 for an answering machine. Let it earn its keep.