It Was wisely known in New York, but never acknowledged, that Americans want to get away from amusement even more I quickly than they wont to get to it.
Source: Woodward, as narrator, on society people leaving the opera in a hurry in film The Age of Innocence, 1993.
-- Joanne Woodward, (Feb 27 1930-____), US actress; She starred in The Three Faces of Eve.