“Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
This also appears in Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), Act II
The Critic as Artist (1891), Part II
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Source: 1969 - 1980, In: "Ellsworth Kelly: Works on Paper," 1987, p. 16 : 'Notes from 1969'
“Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
This also appears in Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), Act II
The Critic as Artist (1891), Part II
Joe Jackson (1887–1951) American baseball player
This is the Truth! (1949)
Context: I have read now and then that I am one of the most tragic figures in baseball. Well, maybe that's the way some people look at it, but I don't quite see it that way myself. I guess one of the reasons I never fought my suspension any harder than I did was that I thought I had spent a pretty full life in the big leagues. I was 32 years old at the time, and I had been in the majors 13 years; I had a life time batting average of.356; I held the all-time throwing record for distance; and I had made pretty good salaries for those days. There wasn't much left for me in the big leagues.
Lawrence Wright (1947) American writer
[Barbara Hoffman, September 26, 2010, In my library … Lawrence Wright, New York Post, 32]
“For me to see is to read. It has always been that way.”
Diane Setterfield book The Thirteenth Tale
Source: The Thirteenth Tale