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Great Literary Taunts

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Date: Nov 26, 2008 - 06:19 PM
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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