A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know.

Mistinguett

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Topic

Kisses

Speaker

Mistinguett

Source

Theatre Arts

Medium

Magazine

Language

French

Time

1955 1950s 20th century

Occupation

Actor Singer

From

France Europe

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Mistinguett. Quoted in "Limelights and Footlights." Written by Hedy Clark. Theatre Arts, 1955.

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Source
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Medium
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Language
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Time
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Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Williams, Tennessee. Orpheus Descending. Directed by Harold Clurman. Performed by Elizabeth Eustis and Jane Rose and Warren Kemmerling. 17 Mar. 1957, Martin Beck Theatre, New York City, New York, USA, act 2, sc. 1.

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Another quote originally in French

Once I had recognized the taste of the crumb of madeleine soaked in her decoction of lime flowers which my aunt used to give me... Immediately the old gray house upon the street, where her room was, rose up like the scenery of a theater.

Marcel Proust

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Topic
Memory

Author

Marcel Proust
Source
Swann's Way In Search of Lost Time
Medium
Novel
Genre
Modernist literature
Language
French
Time
1913 1910s 20th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Proust, Marcel. Du côté de chez Swann [The Way by Swann's]. Paris: Grasset, 1913.

Current Citation

Proust, Marcel. Swann's Way, edited and translated by Lydia Davis. Penguin Classics, 2004.