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You haven't lived until you died in New York.
Alexander Woollcott
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Alexander Woollcott
Age: 56 †
Born: 1887
Born: January 19
Died: 1943
Died: January 23
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Alexander Humphreys Woollcott
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It comes from the likes of you! Take what you can get! Grab the chances as they come along! Act in hallways! Sing in doorways! Dance in cellars!
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Nothing risque, nothing gained.
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Once in pre-war days, when curiously-bonneted women drivers were familiar sights at the taxi-wheels, I cried out to one in my dismay: Is there no speed limit in this mad city? Oh, yes, monsieur, she answered sweetly over her shoulder, but no one has ever succeeded in reaching it.
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I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.
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Babies in silk hats playing with dynamite.
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Germany was the cause of Hitler as much as Chicago is responsible for the Chicago Tribune.
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At 83, George Bernard Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was still better than anyone else's.
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The scenery in the play was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it.
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She was like a sinking ship firing on the rescuers.
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Today just might be the best day to start seriously thinking about quitting smoking.
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The two oldest professions in the world — ruined by amateurs.
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There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.
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The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.
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His huff arrived and he departed in it.
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