Ghost-Written Famous Quotations

[Mark Mandel]

How about many of the good lines attributed to Groucho Marx that were
written by the screenwriters?

m a m

On 6/21/07, Fred Shapiro <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:
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> I am writing an article about famous quotations that were actually
> formulated by ghost-writers of one sort or another rather than by the
> person usually credited with them.  Examples would be speechwriters whose
> words are credited to politicians; actors who ad-libbed lines not included
> in the original screenplays; literary ghost-writers such as Robert Graves
> writing T. E. Lawrence's poem at the beginning of _Seven Pillars of
> Wisdom_; etc.  Can anyone suggest examples of such famous ghost-written
> quotations?
>
> Fred Shapiro
>
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