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Misattributed quotes — Stephen King

b. 1947

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He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.

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In his notes, Schwartz comments that the tongue-twister dates to 19th-century New England and that it was often referred to as "The Drunken Saylor."

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Alvin Schwartz presents a slightly different version of the tongue-twister in his collection A Twister of Twists, A Tangler of Tongues (HarperTrophy, 1972, p. 80)

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William "Stuttering Bill" Denbrough recites this in IT (1985), but the line is not originally King's, as is often believed. It is part of a tongue-twister that dates at least to its publication in "Exercises in Articulation" in The Dayspring (March 1874), p. 39

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Stephen King (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.