"The instinct to conceal one's true livelihood
from the kiddies, for fear of their possible scorn, is as normal as snoring. A
highly solvent gentleman in Forest Hills, a vestryman and the father of three,
once told me in wine that for thirty years, under twelve different pseudonyms,
he had supplied the gamiest kind of pulp fiction to Snappy Stories and Flynn's,
although his children believed him to be a stockbroker."— American
humorist and screenwriter S.J. Perelman (1904-1979), “How Sharper Than a
Serpent's Tooth," in The Most of S.J. Perelman (1957)Monday, January 16, 2017
Quote of the Day (S.J. Perelman, on Concealing ‘One's True Livelihood From the Kiddies’)
"The instinct to conceal one's true livelihood
from the kiddies, for fear of their possible scorn, is as normal as snoring. A
highly solvent gentleman in Forest Hills, a vestryman and the father of three,
once told me in wine that for thirty years, under twelve different pseudonyms,
he had supplied the gamiest kind of pulp fiction to Snappy Stories and Flynn's,
although his children believed him to be a stockbroker."— American
humorist and screenwriter S.J. Perelman (1904-1979), “How Sharper Than a
Serpent's Tooth," in The Most of S.J. Perelman (1957)
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