You quoted this from memory, right? There are a few minor omissions:
You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded
front door.
There is a small mailbox here.
Since I have a tattoo of that scene, I’m a bit protective of it…
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I always loved this one:
Anyway, we do not assume liability for things like this, even if the city is a small one like Muleshoe, Texas.
Most (all?) Legend Entertainment game manuals.
I wonder how many who bought a Legend Entertainment game bothered to read the legal disclaimer in the manual. Apart from the usual text, it contains a lawyer joke (I think this was the only bit that changed between games), clarifies that you won’t get your money back even “if the program does not have a happy ending” because they “have probably spent your money to keep our programmers in pizza anyway”, points out you “do not have the right to give copies to your friends (or enemies)”, and warns you that now that you have read it any copyright infringement “will be willful, and you can be nailed for some big bucks if we catch you.”
Here’s the context for the quote I selected:
For example, you may be playing our game when a friend passing by is distracted by some of the graphics. He walks into a floor lamp. The lamp falls over, scaring your cat. The cat streaks from the room, upsetting a heater which sets some curtains afire. Unfortunately, it is a windy day and the fire is soon out of control. Three days later Chicago is still ablaze. If we took out an insurance policy against such remote contingencies, we would have to charge $1599.99 for the game, and you would not be reading this lame copy. Anyway, we do not assume liability for things like this, even if the city is a small one like Muleshoe, Texas.
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Rough stone steps lead up the dome.
Or maybe…
Unfortunately, a later age seems to have considered them blasphemous and just as skillfully excised them.
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> kill dragon
With what? Your bare hands?
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>SAVE
Floyd's eyes light up. "Oh boy! Are we gonna try something dangerous now?"
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> XYZZY
A hollow voice says “Fool…”
Also probably just:
You can’t go that way.
The parser error messages on a dead-sea-scroll style artifact might be wryly funny, or a transcript of someone not understanding how to play in cuneiform and rage-quitting.
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now also the guilds of scenographers and of the matte painters will join the writers & actors strike…
Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.
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That’s, “talking to yourself is a sign of impending mental collapse.”
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What’s that from???
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Photopia:
"Will you read me a story?”
“Read you a story? What fun would that be? I’ve got a better idea: let’s tell a story together.”
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If you prefer to quote from Wishbringer: The Magick Stone of Dreams, then it’s –
There is a little mailbox here.
And you may be quite sure that I noticed the difference instantly, the very first time it came up. 
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Or…
“Last version was better. More bugs. Bugs make game fun.”
BTW, how did you get that quote to display in a monospace font?
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Where did you find/get that???
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On my Android phone.
(Plus, you can get that the way Nathan did like this:
`The single whatever-it-is on either side!`
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Not sure if this is a “classic” yet (from Bee):
Sooner or later you’re going to lose.
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“Enough talk, wanna play hucka-bucka-beanstalk?”
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The deck is an avalanche of noise and blood. Lit by roaring fires, silhouetted forms crash swords, dancing around the screaming wounded.
Calvin Coolidge once described windows as “rectangles of glass.” If so, he may have been thinking about the window which fills the western wall of this room.
The hallway ends at a gleaming metal door to the west, and continues east. Something, possibly this very sentence, tells you that it would be dangerous to travel east or west.
Somewhere nearby several of Morgan Fairchild’s cats begin crying.
This is a spare bedroom where guests would stay if they couldn’t drive home after one of the parties. The bed is big and fluffy and all the furniture is padded well. Uncle Buddy put two brass handles on the floor so guests would have something to hang onto when the room began to spin. A doorway leads north.
It’s a prop fire hydrant from “Atomic Chihuahuas From Hell.” Uncle Buddy took a lot of heat for that film when two unlikely special interest groups, the Institute for Nuclear Power and the American Chihuahua Breeders Association, joined forces in an effort to have the film banned.
A door bell glows at you, almost daring you to ring it.
The air seems expectant, waiting for the rain to begin, like a cat waiting for the ineffable moment to ambush.
I seriously never noticed before how many mentions of cats there are in The Witness, literal and figurative.
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Maybe some of the phrases from the language puzzle in The Edifice would be translatable?
Also, “You can’t see any such thing.”
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Interesting how we gravitate towards default messages and errors, probably because we’ve seen them most often. In that category:
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