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- From: glazier@isr.harvard.edu (Andrew Baker Glazier)
- Newsgroups: alt.quotations
- Subject: Re: Non-quotes
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.213145.26532@burrhus.harvard.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 21:31:45 GMT
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- >|>Just like Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson" in any of
- >|>Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's stories.
- >
- >| And Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam" in Casablanca. Kind of
- >| an interesting thread - well known non quotes.
- >
- >And Shakespeare never said "Alas poor Yorick, I knew him well."
- >Hamlet Act 5 Scene 1, look it up.
- >
- Well, that's true: the actual line is "... knew him, Horatio." But it hard
- to use that without having to explain who the hell Horatio is. Another
- almost-quote: although the words "Ich bin ein Berliner." did come from JFK
- during a trip there, he was not speaking in the first person; he was saying
- that that was what a lot of Germans could now be proud to say.
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- "A horse! A horse! Somebody give me a horse, man, because|glazier@
- I come to bury this dirtball, not to praise him. Whaddya |harvard.isr.edu
- think I am? Whether it's nobler for the mind to make people suffer with all
- these totally outrageous arrows arrows for a fortune, or what!" -- D.R.
-