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I must get out of these wet clothes and into a dry martini.

— Alexander Woollcott Misattributed

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Alexander Woollcott very probably did not say this. Wikiquote lists it as misattributed.

Source: Reported as a misattribution in Paul F. Boller, Jr., and John George, They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, & Misleading Attributions (1989), p. 132.
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Notes from Wikiquote

Attested as "You ought to get out of those wet clothes and into a dry martini." in Mae West, Every Day's a Holiday (1937)

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