To a neighbour who tolder her her dog was a female:
"I always call dogs 'he'. It don't do to notice everything."

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Of the 1930s:
"They were progressive days. We thought we were going to make the world better - I forget why we thought it, but we did."

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Ornithology For Beginners

The bird that feeds from off my palm
Is sleek, affectionate, and calm,
But double to me, is worth the thrush
A-flickering in the elder-bush.

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On her pregnancy:
"It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard."

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Of trying to talk to someone who kept interrupting:
"Like riding on the Long Island railroad - it gets you nowhere in particular."

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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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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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Name of her poodle:
"Cliche."

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Braggart

You will be frail and musty
With peering, furtive head,
While I am young and lusty
Among the roaring dead.

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John Huston is doing something called, very simply, The Bible. Now you must admit that's a big job. I think he's going to stop with Moses because he can't stand another moment - he is playing Moses, you see.

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Oh, I said it all right. You know how it is. A joke. When people expect you to say things, you say things. Isn't that the way it is?

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Social Note

Lady, lady, should you meet
One whose ways are all discreet,
One who murmurs that his wife
Is the lodestar of his life,
One who keeps assuring you
That he never was untrue,
Never loved another one...
Lady, lady, better run.

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On finding herself a guest at a private house:
"I knew it would be terrible. Only I didn't think it would be as bad as this. This isn't just plain terrible; this is fancy."

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

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Of Margot Asquith's four-volume autobiography:
"The affair between Margo Asquith and Margo Asquith will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature."

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Experience

Some men break your heart in two,
Some men fawn and flatter,
Some men never look at you;
And that clears up the matter.

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On writing for films:
"I don't believe the films have anything to do with writing except in a crossword puzzle kind of way. Writing a script is drawing together a lot of ends which can be worked into a moving picture."

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To a friend who was upset that he had to get rid of his cat:
"Have you tried curiosity?"

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When a woman asked her, as they often did, "How did you do it?" :
"See your analyst. He might have a word with your ovaries."

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