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American author and humorist 1835–1910Related quotes
Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
As quoted in Marilyn Monroe : In Her Own Words (1983), edited by Roger Taylor
Context: Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents.
Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
As quoted in Marilyn Monroe : In Her Own Words (1983), edited by Roger Taylor
Variant: Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents.
Art Evans (actor) (1942) American actor
Theater Master Art Evans! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_mg1nsTJRU (April 8, 2015)
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
On being informed that Faulkner had said that Hemingway "had never been known to use a word that might send the reader to the dictionary." Pt. 1, Ch. 4
Papa Hemingway (1966)
Brion Gysin (1916–1986) Canadian artist
'Cut-Ups Self-Explained' in Brion Gysin Let the Mice In, Tuning in to the Multimedia Age, p. 153.
“Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.”
Wilkie Collins book The Woman in White
Source: The Woman in White
“Words cannot always do the work we need them to. Music is there for when words fail us.”
Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear
Source: The Wise Man's Fear