“Have you ever noticed that when people use the expression 'I have to say', what follows usually needn't be said?”
Source: Bridge of Sighs
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Richard Russo 19
American novelist, short story writer and screenwriter 1949Related quotes

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“I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.”
“Do you think people have noticed that I'm around?”
“I notice when you're not. Does that count?”
Source: Saving Francesca
Introduction for his unfinished novel, Whistle (1978) the third part of his war trilogy (which was completed by Willie Morris); quoted in TIME magazine (13 March 1978) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,919437,00.html

Interview with Evelyn Rich (March 1985), on the Holocaust

Paris 1923
As quoted by Marius de Zayas, in 'The Arts', New York, May 1923
Quotes, 1920's, "Picasso Speaks," 1923