“A Wasn’t just isn't. He just isn't present. But you… You ARE YOU! And, now isn't that pleasant!”
Source: Happy Birthday to You!
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American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of B… 1904–1991Related quotes

“For the present you can just call me the Kingfish.”
Every Man a King (1933), p. 277.

“To complete a work is just like being present at the death of someone you love.”
On his opera Pelléas et Mélisande
The Life of the Creative Spirit

As quoted in the U.S. Navy's Chips Ahoy magazine (July 1986) http://web.archive.org/web/20090114165606/http://www.chips.navy.mil/archives/86_jul/interview.html
"If it’s just paper, why did you wrap it?"
The Bronze Horseman (2001)
The Works of Wilkie Collins: The Black Robe [P.F. Collier, 1900] (p. 328)
Also in Wilkie Collins: A Literary Life by Graham Law & Andrew Maunder [Springer, 2008, ISBN 0-230-22750-3] ( p. 15 https://books.google.com/books?id=kKyHDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA15&f=false)