“I've never met the man; he came out of me. I’d feel a lot easier if I’d met him and imitated him, as a matter of fact.”
As quoted in Daily Express (7 February 1967), and in Tragically I Was an Only Twin : The Complete Peter Cook (2002) by William Cook, p. 58
Context: I drift very easily into becoming E. L. Wisty. I’ve always felt very closely identified with that sort of personality. He is a completely lost creature, he never works, never moves, has no background and suspects everybody is peering at him and trying to get his secrets out of him. I've never met the man; he came out of me. I’d feel a lot easier if I’d met him and imitated him, as a matter of fact.
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“I have never met a man so ignorant that I could not learn something from him.”
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The Idiot (1868–9)
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Vol. I, ch. 13.
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