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Alexander Humphreys Woollcott (January 19, 1887 – January 23, 1943) was an American critic and commentator for The New Yorker magazine and a member of the Algonquin Round Table.

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Los Angeles is seven suburbs in search of a city.

Angeles, Cities, Los Angeles, Search, Seven, Suburbs

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.

Burned, Good Man, Men, Regard, Used, Writing

There's absolutely nothing wrong with Oscar Levant that a miracle can't fix.

Levant, Miracle, Nothing, Oscar, Oscars, Personality

Mrs. Patrick Cambell is an aged British battleship sinking rapidly and firing every available gun on her rescuers.

Art, Entertainment, Gun, Mrs, Patrick

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. "

Bed, Celebrated, Companion, Instance, Marriage, Mrs

His huff arrived and he departed in it.

Arrived, Departed, Huff, Luck

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.

Bernard Shaw, George, Mind, Perhaps, Quite, Used

The two oldest professions in the world — ruined by amateurs.

Moral, Professions, Ruined, Two, World

Babies in silk hats playing with dynamite.

Baby, Dynamite, Government, Hats, Silk

I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.

Democracy, Government, Supposed, Tired, Work

There's nothing wrong with Oscar Levant - nothing a miracle won't cure.

Art, Cure, Miracle, Oscar, Oscars, Wrong

A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn't go.

Funny, Hick, Humor, Place, Places To Go, Town

Nothing risque, nothing gained.

Gained, Nothing, Risque, Sex

Germany was the cause of Hitler as much as Chicago is responsible for the Chicago Tribune.

Chicago, Cities, Germany, Tribune

There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.

Day, Encouragement, Life, Motivational, Unimportant

Everything I like is either illegal, immoral or fattening.

Everything, Fattening, Illegal, Illegal Things

All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.

Fattening, Food, Funny, Illegal Things, Immoral, Things

You haven't lived until you died in New York.

Died, Havens, Lived, New York, York

The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.

Ability, Calm, England, Extraordinary, Flying, Insulting

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!

Chance, Come, Doorways, Likes, Take

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