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http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2012_01/arts_shapiro.html

Found while researching misattribution of quotes to Oscar Wilde.   (This conversation is merely alleged itself, closing the loop nicely.)

Wilde had this exchange with artist and with James McNeill Whistler:

Wilde: “I wish I had said that.”

Whistler: “You will, Oscar, you will.”