
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl
Glengarry Glen Ross (1993), Shelley Levene
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl
“If you only ever read one book in your life… I highly recommend you keep your mouth shut.”
Attention Scum! (2001), How To Live (2005)
“You couldn’t keep your mouth shut? I’m calling you Glitterhair from now on. Or Talksalot.”
Source: The Exiled Queen
“Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut!”
From a set of "rules for life" sent to publisher Charles Scribner IV; quoted in Scribner's memoir In the Company of Writers (New York: Scribner, 1991), p. 64 https://books.google.com/books?id=yYdHGtlgIsYC&pg=PA64&dq=hemingway+%22rules+for+life%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj-zvyfgNDMAhUJ_mMKHU6zDrYQ6AEIIzAB#v=onepage&q=%20%22rules%20for%20life%22&f=false
Interview in The Guardian (2011)
2 March 1944
(1942 - 1944)
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl
“If you only ever read one book in your life I highly recommend… keeping your f***ing mouth shut.”
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Cut It Out (2004)
Inès reiterating to Garcin that they cannot ignore one another, Act 1, sc. 5
No Exit (1944)
Source: No Exit and Three Other Plays
“Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut.”