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A quotation from Gene Fowler

What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.

Gene Fowler (1890-1960) American journalist, author, and dramatist. [b. Eugene Devlan]
(Attributed)

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(Attributed) - Fowler, Gene | WIST Quotations

What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins. This is attributed in multiple sources to Fowler's Skyline: A Reporter's Reminiscence of the 1920s (1961), but searches of two copies do not find this text. In her biography The Whole Truth and Nothing But (1963), Hollywood…

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A quotation from Gene Fowler

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it, I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

Gene Fowler (1890-1960) American journalist, author, and dramatist. [b. Eugene Devlan]
Skyline: A Reporter’s Reminiscence of the ’20s, ch. 8 (1961)

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