Lewis Menand ruminates on notable quotables and why accuracy is over-rated.
"What Michael Douglas did say in Wall Street was 'Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.' That was not a quotable quote; it needed some editorial attention, the consequence of which is that everyone distinctly remembers Michael Douglas uttering the words 'Greed is good' in Wall Street, just as everyone distinctly remembers Ingrid Bergman uttering the words 'Play it again, Sam' in Casablanca even though what she really utters is 'Play it, Sam.' When you watch the movie and get to that line, you don’t think your memory is wrong. You think the movie is wrong."
