Creative Quotations from . . .
George S. Kaufman
(1889-1961) born on
Nov 16
US "dramatist, journalist". "The Great Collaborator wrote, with Moss Hart, many popular Broadway plays: "You Can't Take It with You," 1936; "The Man Who Came to Dinner," 1939."
 
   
F
The kind of doctor I want is one who when he's not examining me is home studying medicine.

R
"I like terra firma; the more firma, the less terra."
A
I understand your new play is full of single entendres.
N
"At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one."
K
I thought the play was frightful but I saw it under particularly unfortunate circumstances. The curtain was up.


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: "In "George S. Kaufman: An Intimate Portrait," by Howard Teichmann, 1972."
R: "In <a href="http://www.cyber-nation.com/cgi-bin/victory/quotations/qlreferral/quotelib.pl?id=10115">The Ultimate Success Quotations Library</a>, 1997."
A: "Remark to Howard Dietz about his play "Between the Devil," quoted by Howard Teichmann "George S Kaufman," 1972."
N: "In "20,000 Quips and Quotes" by Evan Esar, 1968."
K: "In "Saturday Review of Literature," by Bennett Cerf."



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