Marília Pêra
To Jane. The keen Stars were twinkling; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Joan, you are one irritating Jew-broad! The first time I heard your voice, my foreskin fell off.”
Joan Rivers Comedy Central Roast (2009)
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)
Source: The Wizard of Zao (1978), Chapter 5 (p. 65)
A ja na przekór kolegom wierzę w twój głos. W twój głos rozsądku. Rzuć tę robotę. Dziękujemy ci bardzo.
To Idol contestants
“Your voice is my voice. Do not forget it!”
Statement made to those going to foreign nations or international conferences, as quoted by F. Rıfkı Atay; also quoted (in Turkish) in Atatürk ve çevresindekiler [Atatürk and his Entourage] (1995) by Kemal Arıburnu, p. 128
Variant translation: Your voice is my voice. Do not forget!
The Dietetics of the Soul; Or, True Mental Discipline (1838)
“You’ve got the one thing a writer needs: You’ve got your own voice. Now go.”
Afterword to The Dud Avocado (2006)
Context: The Big Personalities weighed in. Soon after its publication Irwin Shaw wrote to me praising it. Terry Southern, calling me "Miss Smarts," said I was "a perfect darling." Gore Vidal phoned one morning saying, "You’ve got the one thing a writer needs: You’ve got your own voice. Now go." Ernest Hemingway said to me, "I liked your book. I liked the way your characters all speak differently." And then added, "My characters all sound the same because I never listen." All this, and heaven too. Laurence Olivier told me that now that my book was making a lot of money we could elope and I could support us. The Financial Times ran an item which read, "Such and such stock: No dud avocado." Groucho Marx wrote me, "I had to tell someone how much I enjoyed The Dud Avocado.… If this was actually your life, I don’t know how the hell you got through it." When people ask me how autobiographical the book is I say, all the impulsive, outrageous things my heroine does, I did. All the sensible things she did, I made up.
