“Brevity is the soul of lingerie.”

A compact Shakespearean parody displaying the wordplay that made her reputation · Fashion caption, Vogue

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“It's murder to work for them, at least so I think, because everybody writes. There are too many people writing. Everybody in the studio writes.”

Complaining about the loss of individual authorship in the Hollywood studio system · Interview with Studs Terkel, 1959

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“Gertrude Stein did us the most harm when she said, 'You're all a lost generation.' That got around to certain people and we all said, 'Whee! We're lost.”

Mocking the romantic mythology that grew around her literary generation · Interview, The Paris Review, 1956

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