„Ho scoperto un nuovo metodo anticoncezionale infallibile: si tratta di andare nella camera da letto e guardare mia moglie mentre si toglie il trucco.“
— Art Buchwald
citato in Anche le formiche nel loro piccolo s'incazzano: n. 373
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Art Buchwald
Data di nascita: 20. Ottobre 1925
Data di morte: 17. Gennaio 2007
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Arthur Buchwald è stato un giornalista e scrittore statunitense.
Buchwald ha scritto più di 30 libri e i suoi articoli umoristici sono apparsi in più di 300 giornali.
È noto per la causa intentata ai danni di Eddie Murphy e della Paramount. Al termine del processo l'attore americano fu costretto a risarcire Buchwald per avergli rubato l'idea che è alla base del film Il principe cerca moglie.
Nel 1982 ha vinto il Premio Pulitzer.
Frasi Art Buchwald
„Che cosa distingue George Washington, Richard Nixon e Ronald Reagan? Washington non sapeva dire bugie, Nixon non sapeva dire la verità e Reagan non sa dire la differenza.“
— Art Buchwald
citato in Anche le formiche nel loro piccolo s'incazzano: n. 48
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„Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new...program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was.“
— Art Buchwald
Context: Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new... program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was.
Have I Ever Lied to You? (1968).
„Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.“
— Art Buchwald
As quoted in [http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0611/02/cnr.06.html "Art Buchwald Celebrates His Life" a profile on CNN Newsroom (2 November 2006)].
„Don't commit suicide, because you might change your mind two weeks later.“
— Art Buchwald
A humorous personal mantra he used to combat his states of depression, published in Too Soon to Say Goodbye (2006)
Leaving Home (1995).
„I like champagne— because it always tastes like my foot's asleep.“
— Art Buchwald
[http://books.google.com/books?id=uFDq4ORNvPkC&q=%22I+like+champagne+because+it+always+tastes+like+my+foot's+asleep%22&pg=PA143#v=onepage Some Heady Phrases on Wine], New York Herald Tribune (1954)[http://goodgrape.com/index.php/articles/comments/wine_sediments6]
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„The powder is mixed with water and tastes exactly like powder mixed with water.“
— Art Buchwald
On liquid diets, in New York Herald Tribune (29 December 1960).
„A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.“
— Art Buchwald
New York Herald Tribune (16 January 1958).
„You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.“
— Art Buchwald
Interview in The New York Times Book Review (1985), as quoted in Pundits, Poets, and Wits: An Omnibus of American Newspaper Columns (1990) by Karl Ernest Meyer, p. 308.
„If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.“
— Art Buchwald
International Herald Tribune (24 May 1989).
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„I just don't want to die the same day Castro dies.“
— Art Buchwald
Comment to friends, as quoted in [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/18/AR2007011800616_pf.html "Newspaper Columnist Art Buchwald Dies at 81" by Patricia Sullivan in The Washington Post (18 January 2007)].
