Goodman Ace Quotes

• The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your body and get interested in somebody else's.

  Goodman Ace

  Health, Body, Forget

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• I keep reading between the lies.

  Goodman Ace

  Truth, Lying, Reading

  Goodman Ace (1966). “The fine art of hypochondria; or, How are you?”

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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).

  Goodman Ace

  Secret, Age, Aging

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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 Ace

  Clever, Done, Vaudeville

  Letter to Groucho Marx, in 'The Groucho Letters' (1967) p. 114

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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.

  Goodman Ace

  House, East, Today

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• You know, my father died of cancer when I was a teenager. He had it before it became popular.

  Goodman Ace

  Father, Cancer, Teenager

  The New Yorker (1977)

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• Politics makes estranged bedfellows.

  Goodman Ace

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Bedfellows

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• They call television a medium because nothing's well done.

  Goodman Ace

  Television, Vaudeville, Done

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