Great Literary Taunts
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Date: Nov 26, 2008 - 06:19 PM
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Folks, don't EVER get an author (or person who can attract an audience) mad at you! Here are some taunts wrttens by some famous individuals...
I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here.
Stephen Bishop
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Oscar Wilde
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
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
Oscar Wilde
He has Van Gogh's ear for music.
Billy Wilder
A modest little person, with much to be modest about.
Winston Churchill (about Clement Atlee)
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