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Alexander Woollcott

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


— Alexander Woollcott


#new-york-city

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


— Alexander Woollcott


#course #democracy #hearing #i #said

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


— Alexander Woollcott


#fattening #i #illegal #immoral #like

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


— Alexander Woollcott


#day #life #such #thing #unimportant

At 83 Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was still better than anyone else's.


— Alexander Woollcott


#better #else #good #mind #perhaps

His huff arrived and he departed in it.


— Alexander Woollcott


#departed #his

Everything I like is either illegal, immoral or fattening.


— Alexander Woollcott


#everything #fattening #i #illegal #immoral

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


— Alexander Woollcott


#chicago #germany #hitler #much #responsible

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!


— Alexander Woollcott


#along #cellars #chances #come #comes

Nothing risque, nothing gained.


— Alexander Woollcott


#nothing






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Billed as The Early Bookworm Woollcott was first heard on CBS Radio in October 1929 reviewing books in various timeslots until 1933. He was caricatured twice in Warner Brothers cartoons in 1937: as "Owl Kott" in The Woods Are Full of Cuckoos and as the town crier in Have You Got Any Castles? playing almost identical roles in each. Woollcott continued adding "Germany was the cause of Hitler.

Kaufman and Moss Hart and for the far less likable character Waldo Lydecker in the 1944 film Laura (1944). He was the inspiration for Sheridan Whiteside the main character in the play The Man Who Came to Dinner (1939) by George S. 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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