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Par2: Literary Taunts
2006-04-12 -- A.N. Other
 
> GREAT LITERARY TAUNTS 
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> "I feel so miserable without you, it's almost like having you here."  
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> -- Stephen Bishop " 
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> "A modest little person, with much to be modest about."  
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> -- Winston Churchill (about Clement Atlee)
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> "I've just learned about his illness.  Let's hope it's nothing trivial."
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> -- Irvin S. Cobb "
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> "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great
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> --- Clarence Darrow "
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> "He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the
> dictionary." 
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>  --William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)
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> "He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others." 
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> --- Samuel Johnson 
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>  "He had delusions of adequacy."  
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>  --- Walter Kerr
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>  "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening.  But this wasn't it."   
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> ---  Groucho Marx
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> "They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human
> knowledge."  
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> --- Thomas Brackett Reed
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> "He loves nature in spite of what it did to him."  
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> --- Forrest Tucker 
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> "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved
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> --- Mark Twain
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> "His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork."   
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> --- Mae West
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> "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."  
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>  --- Oscar Wilde
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> "He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends."   
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> --- Oscar Wilde



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