“When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.”
Irène Némirovsky (1903–1942) French novelist who died at the age of 39 in Auschwitz
“I was so surprised at being born that I didn't speak for a year and a half.”
As quoted in Gracie : A Love Story (1988) by George Burns, p. 17
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