A preoccupation with words for their own sake is fatal to good film-making. It's not what films are for.

-Chandler, Raymond
  To Dale Warren,7 Nov.

Nothing really wrong with himöonlyanno domini, but that's the most fatal complaint of all, in the end.

-Hilton,James
  Goodbye, Mr Chips, ch.1.

Yes,Iama fatal man,Madame Fribsbi.Toinspirehopeless passion is my destiny.

-Thackeray,William Makepeace
^50  Mirobolant. Pendennis, ch.23.

A littlesincerity isa dangerousthing, and agreat deal of it is absolutely fatal.

-Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills
Intentions,'The Critic as Artist'.