“I am reminded again that the greatest phrase ever written is words, words, words.”
Wallace Thurman (1902–1934) American novelist active during the Harlem Renaissance
“Money was nice but it was not everything to the actor whose greatest joys were words, words, and words.”
Biography, in "Life: Richard Burton"
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