“I don't give my phone number to strangers. It's Plaza 5048.”
to her future husband when he asked for her phone number after their first dance.[citation needed]
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“Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?”
James Thurber (1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright
Cartoon caption, The New Yorker (5 June 1937); "Word Dance--Part One", A Thurber Carnival (1960)
Cartoon captions
Source: Collecting Himself: James Thurber On Writing And Writers, Humor And Himself
Richard Paul Evans (1962) American writer
Source: The Walk
Ayelet Waldman (1964) American- Israeli writer
Salon.com column http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/waldman/2005/08/15/judgment/index1.html
“a perpetual stranger
am I to the world
I don't understand its language
my silence it can't comprehend”
Bei Dao (1949) contemporary Chinese (PRC) avant garde poet
"A perpetual stranger...", p. 110
Variant translation:
In the world I am
Always a stranger
I do not understand its language
It does not understand my silence
The August Sleepwalker (1990)