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Upton Sinclair is his own King Charles' head. He cannot keep himself out of his writings, try though he may; or, by this time, try though he doesn't.

Hold your pen and spare your voice.

She is happy, for she knows
That her dust is very pretty

Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.

Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.

Time doth flit; oh shit.

Civilization is coming to an end, you understand.

Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded
wheelchair.

She was pleased to have him come and never sorry to see him go.

The two most beautiful words in the English language are 'cheque enclosed.

People are more fun than anyone.

Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.

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.

[To the British actor who annoyed her by repeated references to his busy 'shedule':] I think you're full of skit.

Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.

As I was saying to the landlord only this morning: 'You can't have everything'.

And let her loves, when she is dead
Write this above her bones,
No more she lives to give us bread
Who asked her only stones.

Her big heart did not, as is so sadly often the case, inhabit a big bosom.

The Swiss are a neat and an industrious people, none of whom is under seventy-five years of age.

A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.

I think that the direction in which a writer should look is around.

But I don't give up; I forget why not.

A girl's best friend is her mutter.

The Monte Carlo casino refused to admit me until I was properly dressed so I went and found my stockings, and then came back and lost my shirt.

I'll have a martini...two at the most. Three, I'm under the table...four, I'm under the host.

He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.

[On Edna Ferber's Ice Palace] ... the book, which is going to be a movie, has the plot and characters of a book which is going to be a movie.

Drink and dance and laugh and lie,
Love, the reeling midnight through,
For tomorrow we shall die!
(But, alas, we never do.)

Said of her husband on the day their divorce became final: Oh, don't worry about Alan ... Alan will always land on somebody's feet.

His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.

Q: What's the difference between an enzyme and a hormone?
A: You can't hear an enzyme.

And if my heart be scarred and burned,
The safer, I, for all I learned.

If wild my breast and sore my pride, I bask in dreams of suicide, If cool my heart and high my head I think 'How lucky are the dead.

Ah, clear they see and true they say
That one shall weep, and one shall stray

Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.

I'm of the glamorous ladies At whose beckoning history shook. But you are a man, and see only my pan, So I stay at home with a book.

Everybody's got their troubles.

Accursed from their birth they be Who seek to find monogamy, Pursuing it from bed to bed - I think they would be better dead.

Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.

It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes.

Tonstant Weader fwowed up.

People are more than fun than anybody.

I never see that prettiest thing- A cherry bough gone white with Spring- But what I think, How gay 'twould be To hang me from a flowering tree.

Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.

I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.

Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common.

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

Four things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.

One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Oh, both my shoes are shiny new,
And pristine is my hat
My dress is 1922 ...
My life is all like that.

Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!

He and I had an office so tiny, that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.

Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!

What writes worse than a Theodore Dreiser? ... Two Theodore Dreisers.

Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.

There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.

I know that ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.

Every fashion, the fashion before: in a duller dress.

[On Lou Tellegen's Women Have Been Kind:] The book ... has all the elegance of a quirked little finger and all the glitter of a pair of new rubbers.

Some men break your heart in two, Some men fawn and flatter, Some men never look at you; And that cleans up the matter.

Hollywood is the one place on earth where you could die of encouragement.

You were perfectly fine.

Authors and actors and artists and such - Never know nothing, and never know much.

Somebody was using the pencil.

Never throw mud. You may miss your mark, but you will have dirty hands.

Why is it no one sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get one perfect rose.

The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

As for helping me in the outside world, the Convent taught me only that if you spit on a pencil eraser, it will erase ink.

I've finally gotten to the bottom of things.

She realizes she doesn't know as much as God but feels she knows as much as God knew when he was her age.

Trapped like a trap in a trap

If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.

Friends come and go but I wouldn't have thought you'd be one of them

LINSCOTT: Well, life certainly treats you fine.
CONNIE: No, Tom. Life and I go Dutch.

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

Art is a form of catharsis emotional release, purging, cleansing, purifying.

You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.

There was a reason for the cost of those perfectly plain black dresses.

I am at just that interesting age where i cannot keep out of things. I, too, must be in the know; I, too, must quote and sigh and nod wisely.

Where's the man that could ease a heart like a satin gown?

I've seen the way he dances; it looks like something you do on Saint Walpurgis Night.

All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.

At birth the Devil touched my tongue.

The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.

I was the toast of two continents: Greenland and Australia.

[On hearing that President Coolidge was dead:] How can you tell?

She dreamed by day of never again putting on tight shoes, of never having to laugh and listen and admire, of never more being a good sport. Never.

A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.

Why, after all, should readers never be harrowed? Surely there is enough happiness in life without having to go to books for it.

Please don't let me hope, dear God. Please don't. I

If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised.

When asked by her publisher why her work had not been submitted while on her honeymoon: I've been too fucking busy or vice versa

Brevity is the soul of lingerie.

Prince or commoner, tenor or bass,
Painter or plumber or never-do-well,
Do me a favor and shut your face -
Poets alone should kiss and tell.

It was written without fear and without research.

When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken.

Honest, I won't ever do it again. I'll go straight, after this. I'll never go to bed again, if I can only sleep now.

Yes, I once was the toast of two continents! ( ... Greenland & Australia).

The affair between Margot Asquinth and Margot Asquinth will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature.