"I don't want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading."
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"Somewhere, there, is an analogy, in a small way, if you have the patience for it. But I guess it isn't a very good anecdote. I'm better at animal stories."
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"Don't feel bad when I die; I've been dead for a long time."
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"Anthologists are lazy fellows who like to spend a quiet evening at home raiding good books."
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"At birth the Devil touched my tongue."
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"Benchley and I had an office in the old Life magazine that was so tiny, if it were an inch smaller it would have been adultery."
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"It's easier to write about those you hate — just as it's easier to criticize a bad play or a bad book."
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"Authors and actors and artists and such - Never know nothing, and never know much."
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"Everybody's got their troubles."
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"The House Beautiful is the play lousy."
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"Scratch a king and find a fool!"
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"Sometimes I think I'll give up trying, and just go completely Russian and sit on a stove and moan all day."
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"Then if my friendships break and bend, There's little need to cry The while I know that every foe Is faithful till I die."
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"The Swiss are a neat and an industrious people, none of whom is under seventy-five years of age."
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"Perhaps it suddenly brought to us the sense of change. Or irresponsibility. But don't forget that, though the people in the twenties seemed like flops, they weren't. Fitzgerald, the rest of them, reckless as they were, drinkers as they were, they worked damn hard and all the time."
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"[To the British actor who annoyed her by repeated references to his busy 'shedule':] I think you're full of skit."
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"There was nothing separate about her days. Like drops on the window-pane, they ran together and trickled away."
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"I wish, I wish I were a poisonous bacterium."
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"Be you wise and never sad, You will get your lovely lad. Never serious be, nor true, And your wish will come to you-- And if that makes you happy, kid, You'll be the first it ever did."
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"tomorrow's gone-we'll have tonight!"
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