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The two oldest professions in the world — ruined by amateurs.
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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All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening.
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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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There's nothing wrong with Oscar Levant - nothing a miracle won't cure.
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You haven't lived until you died in New York.
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Nothing risque, nothing gained.
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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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There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.
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To all things clergic I am allergic.
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Reading Proust is like bathing in someone else's dirty water.
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Los Angeles is seven suburbs in search of a city.
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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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It was Mrs. Campbell, for instance, who, on a celebrated occasion, threw her companion into a flurry by describing her recent marriage as the deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-longue.
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I count it a high honor to belong to a profession in which the good men write every paragraph, every sentence, every line, as lovingly as any Addison or Steele, and do so in full regard that by tomorrow it will have been burned, or used, if at all, to line a shelf.
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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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Mrs. Patrick Cambell is an aged British battleship sinking rapidly and firing every available gun on her rescuers.
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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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Babies in silk hats playing with dynamite.
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