Max Shulman > Quotes

“The first blessing was that we didn’t have to call one another Marie and Pierre any more. This was a great boon because we had quite forgotten our real names in the preceding weeks. I had had to look in my wallet whenever somebody asked my name. It was worse for her; she didn’t carry a wallet.”
― Max Shulman, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis: Stories

“Mr. Hambrick was one of those college English instructors who had taken a teaching job thirty years before so they could have an income while they worked on their novels. Now they were still teaching English and they were still on the first chapters of their novels. They vented their frustration on their students.”
― Max Shulman, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis: Stories

“It is, after all, easier to make a beautiful dumb girl smart than to make an ugly smart girl beautiful.”
― Max Shulman, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis: Stories