“If, with the literate, I am
Impelled to try an epigram,
I never seek to take the credit;
We all assume that Oscar said it.”
[Magazine, June 2, 1927]
Sunset Gun (1927)
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American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist 1893–1967Related quotes

“Everything I am came from my parents. I don't take that much credit for who I am and what I am.”
Forward.com, "Broadway Star Mandy Patinkin Finds His Forte: Yiddish" http://www.forward.com/articles/3284

Speech at the National Press Club http://www.press.org/sites/default/files/20161031_thiel.pdf (October 31, 2016)

I never said that.
Interview with Roger Ebert in Esquire magazine (7 March 1972); more on this at Snopes.com: "I Love My Cigar" http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/grouchocigar.asp
Preface.
A Treatise on Language: Or, The Relation which Words Bear to Things, in Four Parts (1836)
Context: As... the following sheets are the painful elaboration of many years, when my language or positions shall, in a casual perusal, seem absurd, (and such cases may be frequent,) I request the reader to seek some more creditable interpretation. The best which he can conceive should be assumed to be my intention: as on an escutcheon, when a figure resembles both an eagle and a buzzard, heraldry decides that the bird which is most creditable to the bearer, shall be deemed to be the one intended by the blazon.

Source: Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey

“All events became omens; I lost the ability to take anything literally.”
Generation X (1991)

"An Interview with Bernard Malamud", in Leslie A. Field and Joyce W. Field (eds.) Bernard Malamud: A Collection of Critical Essays (London: Prentice-Hall, 1975) p. 11