
“Something's burning somewhere. Does anybody care?”
What Made America Famous?
Song lyrics, Verities & Balderdash (1974)
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Seventy Seven Thousand Service-Trees series 1-50 (1998)
“Something's burning somewhere. Does anybody care?”
What Made America Famous?
Song lyrics, Verities & Balderdash (1974)
“Never care what anybody says.”
Told to Oscar Levant, who admitted: "I took his advice with deleterious results."
Source: [Levant, Oscar, Oscar Levant, The Memoirs of an Amnesiac, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1965, New York, 98]
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“You never understand anybody that loves you.”
Pt. 3: At Sea, Section 21 (the last sentence of the novel)
Islands in the Stream (1970)
“I'm always learning something. Learning never ends.”
Source: Cathedral
this is a line spoken by Frank Morgan's depiction of the Wizard of Oz in the 1939 film, which debuted 20 years after Baum's death. It did not actually appear in the "Wonderful Wizard of Oz". The ending of "Steam Engines of Oz" wrongly attributes this phrase to Baum when it would've originated from the 1939 adaptation script writers Langley/Ryerson/Woolf.
Misattributed
Variant: A heart is not judged by how much you love; but by how much you are loved by others
Source: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz