[Ads-l] "I have the best words"

[Shapiro, Fred]

I'm not sure whether Ben is referring to my list of 10 most notable quotations of the year, or to some other QOTY designation, but if it's the former a late-December quote is definitely eligible for the next year's list.

Fred Shapiro




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Don't think this one is eligible for 2016 QOTY, because Trump said it at
the end of last year.

https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__dailycaller.com_2015_12_30_trump-2Di-2Dknow-2Dwords-2Di-2Dhave-2Dthe-2Dbest-2Dwords-2Dobama-2Dis-2Dstupid-2Dvideo_&d=CwIBaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=sRkhHMQo6W5Ird1lkQFqb23bCfSHAR2XjUSUG53db5M&m=ivS_gJ_rptvs8WKHuLeUBgpq4_BaRbAU4U3Kkn-6aTs&s=q8v3WrKVvQWrTA7NGY2pfLnRirfk8b_pLROj2SmViYg&e=

On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 7:00 AM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu>
wrote:

> I find "I know words. I have the best words." to be oddly beautiful.  It
> also has a Hemingwayesque quality.
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> Fred Shapiro
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> Geoffrey Nunberg <nunbergg at GMAIL.COM>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2016 12:40 AM
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> Narcissism has never been so memorably pithy. I make it a terrific QOTY
> candidate.
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> Geoff
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> > Date:    Tue, 11 Oct 2016 13:35:33 +0000
> > From:    Joel Berson <berson at ATT.NET <mailto:berson at att.net>>
> > Subject: "I have the best words"
> >
> > "I know words, I have the best words."  Donald Trump.
> >
> > From an article by Lisa Belkin, Chief National Correspondent [for, I
> assume, Yahoo/News],October 10, 2016, titled "Not 'just words': Why Donald
> Trump's lewd talk matters":
> >
> > "For your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be
> condemned" reads Matthew 12:36-38.
> >
> > "Words are loaded pistols," wrote Jean-Paul Sartre.
> >
> > "Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind," Rudyard
> Kipling said.
> >
> > And, of course, Donald Trump: "I know words, I have the best words."
> >
> > Not 'just words': Why Donald Trump's lewd talk matters
> >
> > Joel
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