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"Once I was coming down a street in Beverly Hills and I saw a Cadillac about a block long, and out of the side window was a wonderfully slinky mink, and an arm, and at the end of the arm a hand in a white suede glove wrinkled around the wrist, and in the hand was a bagel with a bite out of it."
"The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism."
"Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful. So you might as well live."
"There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it."
"Friends come and go but I wouldn't have thought you'd be one of them"
"When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken."
"Excuse me, everybody, I have to go to the bathroom. I really have to telephone, but I'm too embarrassed to say so."
"[When asked what was the inspiration for most of her work:] Need of money, dear."
"The plot is so tired that even this reviewer, who in infancy was let drop by a nurse with the result that she has ever since been mystified by amateur coin tricks, was able to guess the identity of the murderer from the middle of the book."
"The affair between Margot Asquith and Margot Asquith will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature."
"Why, after all, should readers never be harrowed? Surely there is enough happiness in life without having to go to books for it."
"All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted."
"She can sit up and beg, and she can give her paw — I don't say she will, but she can."
"One more drink and I'd have been under the host."
"Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion."
"I don't mind anything that's written about me, as long as it's not true."
"All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends."
"[On hearing that President Coolidge was dead:] How can you tell?"
"Newton's Fourth Law: Every action has an equal and opposite satisfaction."
"all men are the same age."