“I have defined the 100 per cent American as 99 per cent an idiot.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
New York Times (19 December 1930) remarks on Sinclair Lewis receiving the Nobel Prize
1930s
“The essence is that I leave something of me in every role — not 100 per cent.”
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