“For one thing, she pronounced flowers 'flars' and I couldn't let it slide.”
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American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright 1894–1961Related quotes

“That flower
seen as I went down—
as I was coming up
I couldn't see it”
Flowers of a Moment (2006), p. 46

“If I thought about it, I never would have done it, I guess I would have let it slide.”
Song lyrics, Biograph (1985), Up to Me (recorded 1974)

“Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower in a truth.”
"Natural History of Massachusetts" , The Dial (1842) https://archive.vcu.edu/english/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/thoreau/nathist.html