On being asked if she was going to join Alcoholics Anonymous :
"Certainly not. They'd want me to stop now."

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Sure, you make Money writing on the coast, and God knows you earn it, but that money is like so much compressed snow. It goes so fast it melts in your hand.

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On hearing that President Calvin Coolidge had died:
"How could they tell?"

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As far as I'm concerned, the most beautiful word in the English language is "cellar-door".

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Of a play by Channing Pollock:
"The House Beautiful" is The Play Lousy.

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I hate Women. They get on my Nerves.

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Asked if she knew Hemmingway's age:
"All writers are either 29 or Thomas Hardy."

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General Review of the Sex Situation

Woman wants monogamy;
Man delights in novelty.
Love is woman's moon and sun;
Man has other forms of fun.
Woman lives but in her lord;
Count to ten, and man is bored.
With this the gist and sum of it,
What earthly good can come of it?

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Comment

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong,
And I am Marie of Roumania.

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Isn't it a bit presumptuous of us to be alive now that Mr. Benchley is dead?

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Of a performance by Katherine Hepburn:
"She ran the whole gamut of emotions, from A to B."

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Of an actress who, she was told, had fallen and broken a leg in London:
"Oh, how terrible. She must have done it sliding down a barrister."

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I require only three things of a man: he must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.

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Words of Comfort to be Scratched on a Mirror

Helen of Troy had a wandering glance;
Sappho's restriction was only the sky;
Ninon was ever the chatter of France;
But oh, what a good girl am I!

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Commenting on how she was refused admittance at the Casino in Monte Carlo for not wearing stockings:
"So I went and found my stockings and lost my shirt."

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I was the toast of two contintents : Greenland and Australia.

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Nickname for Alexander Woollcott's New York apartment:
"Wit's End."

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Telegram to an actress who finally had her baby after many carefully contrived appearances during her long pregnancy:
"GOOD WORK. WE ALL KNEW YOU HAD IT IN YOU."

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George Sand

What time the gifted lady took
Away from paper, pen, and book,
She spent in amorous dalliance
(They do those things so well in France.)

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