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Dr Bob Griffin
Jul 6, 2006, 2:11:01 AM7/6/06
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GREAT LITERARY TAUNTS
"I feel so miserable without you, it's almost like having you here."
--- Stephen Bishop
"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing
trivial." --- Irvin S. Cobb
"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with
great pleasure." --- Clarence Darrow
"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to
the dictionary." --- William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)
"He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others."
--- Samuel Johnson
"He had delusions of adequacy." --- Walter Kerr
"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it." ---
Groucho Marx
"They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of
human knowledge." --- Thomas Brackett Reed
"He loves nature in spite of what it did to him." --- Forrest Tucker
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved
of it." --- Mark Twain
"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork." --- Mae West
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go." --- Oscar
Wilde
"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends." ---
Oscar Wilde
"He has Van Gogh's ear for music." --- Billy Wilder
"I feel so miserable without you, it's almost like having you here."
--- Stephen Bishop
"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing
trivial." --- Irvin S. Cobb
"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with
great pleasure." --- Clarence Darrow
"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to
the dictionary." --- William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)
"He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others."
--- Samuel Johnson
"He had delusions of adequacy." --- Walter Kerr
"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it." ---
Groucho Marx
"They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of
human knowledge." --- Thomas Brackett Reed
"He loves nature in spite of what it did to him." --- Forrest Tucker
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved
of it." --- Mark Twain
"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork." --- Mae West
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go." --- Oscar
Wilde
"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends." ---
Oscar Wilde
"He has Van Gogh's ear for music." --- Billy Wilder
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Dr Bob, www.grif.net
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