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"I can't talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there and it's a horror to look back on. I can't imagine how I did it. When I got away from it I couldn't even refer to the place by name. ''Out there,'' I called it."
"[To woman bragging about having kept her husband for seven years:] Don't worry, if you keep him long enough, he'll come back in style."
"Hollywood is the one place on earth where you could die of encouragement."
"It may be that this autobiography [Aimee Semple McPherson's] is set down in sincerity, frankness, and simple effort. It may be, too, that the Statue of Liberty is situated in Lake Ontario."
"I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never will be. And I know that ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon."
"She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B."
"I find her anecdotes more efficacious than sheep-counting, rain on a tin roof, or alanol tablets.... you will find me and Morpheus, off in a corner, necking."
"Some men break your heart in two, Some men fawn and flatter, Some men never look at you; And that cleans up the matter."
"Love is like quicksilver in the hand."
"And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word."
"Men They hail you as their morning star Because you are the way you are. If you return the sentiment, They'll try to make you different; And once they have you, safe and sound, They want to change you all around. Your moods and ways they put a curse on; They'd make of you another person. They cannot let you go your gait; They influence and educate. They'd alter all that they admired. They make me sick, they make me tired."
"Guido Natso is natso guido."
"Art is a form of catharsis."
"London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful."
"[Hospitalized and pressing the nurse's button before dictating letters to her secretary:] This should assure us of at least forty-five minutes of undisturbed privacy."
"I wanted to be cute. That's the terrible thing. I should have had more sense."
"I had been fed, in my youth, a lot of old wives' tales about the way men would instantly forsake a beautiful woman to flock around a brilliant one. It is but fair to say that, after getting out in the world, I had never seen this happen." [From a column dated November 17, 1928]"
"I'm of the glamorous ladies At whose beckoning history shook. But you are a man, and see only my pan, So I stay at home with a book."
"Gratitude - the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world."
"Innocence is a desirable thing, a dainty thing, an appealing thing, in its place; but carried too far, it is merely ridiculous."