Goodman Ace quotes
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“The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your body and get interested in somebody else's.”
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“I keep reading between the lies.”
-- Goodman AceSource : Goodman Ace (1966). “The fine art of hypochondria; or, How are you?”
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“You know, my father died of cancer when I was a teenager. He had it before it became popular.”
-- Goodman AceSource : The New Yorker (1977)
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“I have discovered the secret formula for a carefree old age: iycri = fi (if you can't recall it, forget it).”
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“TV—a clever contraction, derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. We call it a medium, because nothing's well done.”
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“Politics makes estranged bedfellows.”
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“They call television a medium because nothing's well done.”
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“Familiarity breeds attempt. Time wounds all heels. I went down on the Lower East Side today and saw all those Old Testament houses. We're all cremated equal. We're insufferable friends. I've been working my head to the bone.”
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“TV—a clever contraction, derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. We call it a medium, because nothing's well done.”
-- Goodman AceSource : Letter to Groucho Marx, in 'The Groucho Letters' (1967) p. 114
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“Do what is healing to your spirit and without effort you will bring the world healing in return.”
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“I've said this before, but I believe more than ever that confidence is sexier than any body part.”
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“A lot of my life is about will - having the will to prove what my body can do.”
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Source : Gwethalyn Graham (1944). “Earth and High Heaven”, Philadelphia and New York : J.B. Lippincott
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“Never forget that it is the spirit with which you endow your work that makes it useful or futile.”
Source : Adelaide Rosalia Hasse (1919). “The Compensations of Librarianship”
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