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“Todas las cosas que realmente me gusta hacer son ilegales, inmorales, o engordan.”

Alexander Woollcott

Original: «All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening.»
Fuente: Partridge, Eric. A Dictionary of Catch Phrases: British and American, from the Sixteenth Century to the Present Day. Editor Paul Beale. Editorial Routledge, 1986 ISBN 9780415059169.
Fuente: The Knock at the Stage Door en la revista Reader's Digest de diicembre d 1933.

“Las dos profesiones más antiguas del mundo, arruinadas por los aficionados.”

Alexander Woollcott

Refiriéndose a los actores y las prostitutas.
Original: «The two oldest professions in the world — ruined by amateurs.»
Fuente: Woollcott, Alexander. Shouts and Murmurs: Echoes of a Thousand and One First Nights. Editorial Century Company, 1922. Procedencia del original: Universidad de California. Digitalizado: 11 diciembre 2007. p. 57.

“A los 83 años, la mente de Shaw tal vez no fuera tan buena como solía ser, pero todavía era mejor que la de cualquier otra persona.”

Alexander Woollcott

Refiriéndose a George Bernard Shaw en While Rome Burns (1934).
Original: «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.»
Fuente: Who Said What When: Chronological Dictionary of Quotations. Autor Hippocrene Books, Incorporated. Colaborador Bloomsbury. Editorial Hippocrene Books, Incorporated, 1991. ISBN 9780870521089.

Alexander Woollcott: Frases en inglés

“Nothing risque, nothing gained.”

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“[You look like] a dishonest Abe Lincoln.”

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Describing Harold Ross, fellow Round Table member and founder of The New Yorker, as quoted in The American Treasury, 1455-1955 (1955) by Clifton Fadiman, Charles Lincoln Van Doren, p. 461; variants of this quote begin "He looks like..." "He looked like..." etc.

“I have no need of your God-damned sympathy. I only wish to be entertained by some of your grosser reminiscences.”

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Letter to Rex O'Malley (1942).

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

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"The Knock at the Stage Door" in Reader's Digest (December 1933); also in A Dictionary of Catch Phrases : British and American, from the Sixteenth Century to the Present Day (1986) http://books.google.com.br/books?id=Nm3jbg0JalMC&pg=PA24&dq=All+the+things+I+really+like+to+do+are+either+illegal,+immoral,+or+fattening by Eric Partridge and Paul Beale, ISBN 041505916X, ISBN 9780415059169 .

“Well, if I were thus rationed in this article and could have but one adjective for George Gershwin, that adjective would be "ingenuous." Ingenuous at and about his piano. Once an occasional composer named Oscar Levant stood beside that piano while those sure, sinewy, catlike Gershwin fingers beat their brilliant drum-fire—the tumultuous cascade of the "Rhapsody In Blue," the amorous languor of "The Man I Love," the impish glee of "Fascinating Rhythm," the fine, jaunty, dust-spurning scorn of "Strike Up the Band." If the performer was familiar with the work of any other composer, he gave no evidence of it. Levant (who, by the way, makes a fleeting appearance in the new Dashlell Hammett book, under the guise of Levi Oscant) could be heard mutterIng under his breath, "An evening with Gershwin Is a Gershwln evening."
"I wonder," said our young composer dreamily, "if my music will be played a hundred years from now."
"It certainly will be," said the bitter Levant,"if you are still around."”

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"George the Ingenuous" in Cosmopolitan (November 1933); reprinted in Ch. IV: "'...A Young Colossus...'" https://books.google.com/books?id=ATcjgQTx0uIC&pg=PA45#v=onepage&q&f=false from Gershwin Remembered (1992) by Edward Jablonski, pp. 44-45

“I must get out of these wet clothes and into a dry martini.”

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Reported as a misattribution in Paul F. Boller, Jr., and John George, They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, & Misleading Attributions (1989), p. 132.
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