Drop Me a Line

Each set of words below is really a one-liner by a well-known person, but each individual word contains one extra letter. To solve, drop the correct letter from each word and then respace and punctuate the remaining letters. The letters dropped from the capitalized words can be anagrammed into the name of the author of the quote. The numbers in parentheses indicate the number of letters in the author’s first and last names.


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-2. FORGE IVY KEY HOUR gene MINES BUNT NED vet REF NORGE tot HEF IRON JAMES (4,1,7)
-3. fund EARN EARTH THINS FLEA BABY TEXT ERIC doris VANE norma LOU SLACKS oaf CHARO tact her (5,6)
-4. they won LAY real SONIC two up LED stake pup JOB EGGING MISS BOTH attic OUR OLD heart the navy BREAK think gags MAIN (4,7)
-5. TEAR CHIA NIGH GAS rub VINE demo DREAMER ICE ANON hovel fist seth LAND brink (4,5)
-6. CAN MINT SELL he CUT dual his TAPER soon WHOA SEEM RIND WALT ACHES BITS pelf (6,5)
-7. HARP SPINES swish RAVING alarm geld moving CAN BRING CLOG SEEK UNIT FOAM if LYING anon their CITE by (6,5)
-8. rib deli EVENT HATE APE COP flew our LAD BEAN olive TOY dray GIFT HEAR NEWER head EARTH open salty (5,6)
-9. FLASH ICON lisa forum oft RUG LIONESS soil not OLDER ABLEST HEAT wet haven total TEA WRITE verb yes fix moan THIS (5,5)
-10. THEN GREW GILL bed ARC LAIN DARN ICE FRIED RAY knight wheat HERO APE REMIT thing (6,6)

1. Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - Mark Twain

Good solve, Cue! These are tough!

9. Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde

2. Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. ~ John F. Kennedy

Well done, ladies!

8. I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty. Nancy Regan

Good one, manxman!

3. Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character - Oscar Levant

Well done, Lex!

4. The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
Erma Bombeck.

Very funny.

She was a funny lady.

7. Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. ~ George Burns

Maybe not ALL of them....

6. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. Albert Camus.

You are right, these are tough!

You are clearly equal to the task , Remi!

5. Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink - Gore Vidal

Correct!

10. There will be a rain dance Friday night, weather permitting. ~ George Carlin

A perfect finish!