“I must get out of these wet clothes and into a dry martini.”

—  Alexander Woollcott

Reported as a misattribution in Paul F. Boller, Jr., and John George, They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, & Misleading Attributions (1989), p. 132.
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