Patrick Dennis Quotes

#1. Tipsy actress Vera Charles (who had 'more changes of costume than facial expression,' according to one critic to whom she never spoke again) ...

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#2. Oh, darling, you know we writers must occasionally stretch a point to heighten the dramatic situation.

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#3. Daddy always said that Christmas is a joyous season when suicides and holdups and shoplifting and like that reach a new high and that the best place to spend the whole thing is a Moslem country.

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#4. Life is a banquet and most poor bastards are starving to death!

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#5. Writing isn't hard - no harder than ditch digging.

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#6. I always start writing with a clean piece of paper and a dirty mind.

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#7. Within the last two years it had been called Tony's, Belle's Bar Sinister, The Ole Plantation, Tony's, Alt Wien, Paris Soir
or Sewer
Victor's Vesuvius, Chez Cocotte, York House, Gay Madrid, and Tony's.

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#8. Life is a banquet and most poor s.o.b.'s are starving to death. Auntie Mame

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#9. She thought that 9Am was in the middle of the night

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#10. Morning, I soon discovered, was one o'clock for Auntie Mame. Early Morning was eleven, and the Middle of the Night was nine.

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#11. Chinchilla is said to be more chic than mink, though personally it reminds me of unborn burlap.

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#12. Why darling, I'm your Auntie Mame!

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#13. She made another sweeping gesture that somehow went wrong because she knocked over the coffee pot and I immediately wrote down six new words which Auntie Mame said to scratch out and forget.

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