“Sometimes, I think Bill forgets that I am sixteen. But I am very happy that he does.”
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“I am billed as a humorist, but of course I am a tragedian at heart.”
Stanley J. Kunitz and Howard Haycraft (eds.), Twentieth Century Authors, New York: H.W. Wilson Company, 1942, p. 342.
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