Source: The Areas of My Expertise (2005), p. 46
The monster to the blind man in Ch. 15
Frankenstein (1818)
Context: I am an unfortunate and deserted creature, I look around and I have no relation or friend upon earth. These amiable people to whom I go have never seen me and know little of me. I am full of fears, for if I fail there, I am an outcast in the world forever.
“I am a sporting man. I always give them a fair chance to get away.”
Asked why he missed so many trains and aeroplanes, as cited in My Darling Clementine (1963), Fishman, W.H. Allen : Star Books edition (1974), p. 218 ISBN 0352300191
Post-war years (1945–1955)
Source: The Magicians' Guild
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/showbiz/2007-02/17/content_811558.htm.
As quoted in Complete Book of U.S. Presidents (1984), by William A. DeGregorio, pp. 19–20
Robert Andrews, Famous Lines: a Columbia dictionary of familiar quotations (1997), which cites a quotation in the London Observer, 30 October 1960
Attributed
“I am a woman and my business is to hold things together.
My business is to tear them apart.”
Source: Tender Is the Night
